Protecting Our Winters

Since earning gold in the 2014 Sochi Olympics in the Women’s halfpipe event, Kaitlyn Farrington has taken on a new a new chapter of her life-a fight for the planet. Farrington is one of more than 200 professional athletes that make up the athlete alliance for Protect Our Winters, a nonprofit founded in 2007 by pro snowboarder Jeremy Jones with a mission of mobilizing the outdoor community to act against climate change. What better voices to join the fight than those who have an intimate, fir hand relationship with snowpack and the mountains on which it rests?
“I don't think I could not have winter as … a part of my life,” Farrington told Mountain Outlaw. “… I love snowboarding, I like powder, and so it just comes with the territory.”
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