Stan has taken his high-octane act around the world, but is most at home slaying silent and deep in the Whistler Blackcomb woods. Photo: Grant Gunderson SINCE The Highway was released in 2016, Stan and Olivia still find time to ski together. When he finds time in his busy filming schedule, he takes a lap with her whenever she goes up the mountain on her sit ski. She got her driver’s license, launched a YouTube channel called QuadLife 101, and is earning a master’s in psychology. Stan has been there every through everything, and and visits with her at least twice a week, even when COVID policies mean he has to stand out-side her window to chat. “It’s really something to see her new life unfold. She’s worked super hard to get to where she’s at,” he says. He’s trying to adjust to having a 33-year-old body himself. “I’ve been skiing with younger kids, who are 20 and are so incredibly good. I love skiing with them because they push me… but their bodies are rubber. It might be smart for me to start to take a warm-up run before going full send.” At the end of last season, he was helivaced out of the back-country with a blown ACL and partial tears to his meniscus, MCL and LCL, the product of an over-rotated 360. It’s not in Stan’s nature to relent, so it’s hard to say if he’ll take his foot off the gas when he’s back on skis. But he started meditation during the pandemic, quit beer to support his injury rehab and became a weekday vegetarian as part of a Protect Our Winters pledge. There’s also the new Blank Collective movie, a video series to film, and an Olympic ski cross race to watch from afar. Stan is pure momentum and, whether high or low, he’s not stopping anytime soon. 048 The Ski Journal
The Ski Journal Volume 15, Issue 2: Page 48
