Drew Stoecklein

USA

Birthday? June 20, 1984

Year you first started skiing? 1986

Three skiing achievements you are most proud of? Graduating from the edgie wedgie, going from a pizza wedge to French fries, and being able to put my gloves on by myself..

Memory/story of the first time you ever went skiing? I don't have many memories from when I first started skiing because I was 2 years old. But the one thing remember is wanting to go faster and bigger every step of the way.

Favorite skiing area and why? Alta & Snowbird because they have the best snow in the world!

Best skiing experience? Its to hard to pick one when I have had so many best skiing experiences.

Worst skiing experience? Losing my best friend in a tragic ski accident.

What's your dream trip? Where? With who? Greenland heli skiing, with my best friends.

Guilty pleasure? Who said I felt guilty about them...?

BD gear you use every time you go skiing? 192 Zealots

Something that annoys you while skiing? I absolutely can't stand lost people in the lift lines.

What/who inspires you in skiing? The young kids I see ripping at the freeskiing comps & around Alta/Snowbird. It is refreshing to see how they read the terrain and how they interpret the sport.

Favorite après-ski meal? French fries and beer

Favorite skiing flick? Blizzards of Aahhs

What's in your iPod? Everything

Strangest place you've ever woken up? In a trailer down by the river with a cougar on the roof.

Strangest person you've ever woken up with? No comment.

Three things you'd never take a roadtrip without? Music, good friends, and Smith glasses.

Superstitions? None.... but I wouldn't recommend opening that umbrella inside or having a black cat cross your path.

What's your dream job? Professional Skier

How are you training when you are not skiing? I train at High Altitude Fitness in Idaho with Kevin Mora and Benji Hill. They have a really great training program that keeps me mentally and physically ripped all year long.

If you could steal one thing and not get caught, what would it be? Heli time in Alaska

If you could have dinner with three people (dead or alive) who would they be? Marilyn Monroe, The Outlaw Jesse James, & Ansel Adams

Do you have any tattoos or piercings? None