Jake Blauvelt

WATERBURY CENTER, VERMONT

Jake grew up in Vermont, riding Bolton Valley, where his technical riding and massive airs landed him on podiums of slopestyle and halfpipe competitions throughout his teens. The biggest win came in 2004, when he won one of snowboarding’s most prestigious events, U.S. Open. Suddenly, at age 17, the snowboarding world was his oyster. He moved to Mammoth, then Tahoe, but found his west coast home in Glacier, WA and at nearby Mt. Baker—the deepest resort in the contiguous United States—where Jake became a master of powder and style. The backcountry was his new home, where an endless offering of lines and natural terrain challenged Jake’s imagination and creativity. Through the next decade, Jake produced award winning video parts with Forum, Absinthe and Snowboarder Magazine, but it was his solo film project, Naturally, that catapulted Jake to the upper echelon of riders.

 Eventually, Jake found his way back home to Vermont, where he lives with his 3 children, Nella (5), Amelia, (3), and Bodie (1), and wife, Kristin, an organic/holistic chef. Jake grows much of his own food, practices yoga and as of late has found a new passion climbing trees and doing arborist work. He also hosts Blauvelt’s Banks Banked Slalom at his home resort of Bolton Valley. 100% of the proceeds go to funding a state of the art concrete skatepark in his hometown of Waterbury, Vermont.

Accomplishments:

Snowboarder Magazine Top 10 Riders of the Year, 2009 and 2010
1st place, U.S Open Slopestyle 2004
Producer of “Naturally”
Video parts in Snowboarder magazine’s “Resolution” and “SFD”
The North Face “Middle of Somewhere” expedition