Support Coombs Outdoors and join us for a day of skiing and celebration at our 7th Annual Skiing with the Stars Event!

Skiing 12:30-4 PM:  Hit the slopes with US Ski Team members, World Tour competitors, Olympic Champions, winter film stars, and local legends at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort. All groups will be guided for the afternoon by a JHMR Mountain Sports School instructor.

Après Ski party 4-7 PM:  Celebrate with us at the Mangy Moose with drinks and appetizers, live music, a robust silent auction, and a brief program about Coombs Outdoors' recent successes and priorities.* 

*Tickets to the Après party are available separately if you are unable to join us for the skiing portion of the event.

2024 Stars confirmed so far include the following new and returning faces:

• Benjamin Alexander: Benjamin is Jamaica's one-man Olympic ski team, and Jamaica's first-ever Olympic Alpine ski racer. Fresh back from the Beijing 2022 Winter Games, dig a little deeper and his story gets even stranger. Set apart from his competitors not only for representing a country without any snow but also for having started the sport 30 years later than the rest of the field, aged 32! Benjamin found skiing in 2015 while touring the world as an international DJ.
• Matt Annetts: Snowboard Freeride World Tour Competitor, star in NDG Cinema productions Don't Crack Under Pressure, Addicted to Life, Pushing the Limits, and Imagine.
  
• Rick Armstrong: "Sick" Rick Armstrong is a professional skier, freeskiing pioneer,  mountaineer, businessman and serial entrepreneur based in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He was a pioneering guide in the early years of Alaska Heli-skiing while working as a lead guide for Valdez Heli-skiing and Doug Coombs as chronicled in the 2007 feature film Steep. He was a member of the ultra-elite group of skiers called the Jackson Hole Airforce who transformed skiing in the 1990s and 2000s. He is known for having skied unskied lines such as his first and unrepeated massive drop into the left side of the notorious Corbet's Couloir at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort. He was the first person to have both skied and snowboarded the Grand Teton in Teton National Park. He has many first ski descents in China, Alaska, Europe, Antarctica, South America, and South Georgia Island. He was an athlete in the 1998 and 1999 Winter X-Games in Crested Butte.
  
• Sean Baker: Sean Baker grew up in Maine, fly fishing on the Kennebec, Penobscot, Rapid Rivers where his dad taught him how to cast and fish for brook trout.  He spent his winter seasons ski racing in Maine in alternate seasons, until he made his way to Scotland as white water rafting guide and became a fly fish guide on the rivers Spey and Annan. Sean made his way to Jackson in 2007, and has since competed on behalf of the US fly fishing team in three national championships. When he’s not working as a ski instructor, trainer and examiner for Jackson Hole Mountain Resort you can find him mountain biking throughout the Intermountain-West, salt-water fishing in Belize, Mexico or Bahamas.
  
• Zahan Billimoria: Zahan has spent his life searching for winter’s magic moments, where steep mountains, deep snow and quiet wilderness are all part of the experience. His passion for human-powered ski exploration has taken him around the globe, and his professional guiding career includes work with Exum Mountain Guides and Teton Gravity Research to lead remote first descents and teach freeride athletes high-level avalanche and technical skills. Zahan is a Patagonia Skiing Ambassador and also owns and operates Samsara Mountain Training, which specializes in skiing and climbing exploration of the world’s greatest alpine playgrounds. As a dedicated climber, Zahan embraces long free routes as readily as hard redpoints and sees the intense “in-the-moment” focus of climbing as a perfect complement to the all-day efforts of big-mountain skiing.
  
• Andy Chambers: Andy has been an integral part of Snow King Mountain ski area and the Jackson Hole Ski & Snowboard Club for more than five decades. A Jackson native, his competitive career began at age 4 with participation in the JHSC, which he continues actively to support and develop. In 1976, he was the Wyoming State High School Slalom and Overall Champion and the runner up in 1979 for Wyoming State High School Athlete of the Year. As a junior racer, Andy was a member of multiple Intermountain Division Junior National and Junior Olympic ski teams, notably as the overall Junior Olympic Champion in 1977. He earned a spot on the US Ski Team’s Men’s Downhill team in 1979, which he held until 1987; among many downhill medals, he was the Overall National Champion in 1983 and won a World Championship with the 1985 team. When it comes to ski racing, Andy is truly our “hometown hero.” He excelled on the international scene, securing the Second Overall Europa Cup Downhill Title and Fourth Overall Europa Cup Title in 1983. After retiring from the US Ski Team, Andy returned to Jackson, and in 1993, he assumed the position of Executive Director of the Jackson Hole Ski Club, which he held until 1996. He conceived and developed the Next Generation Skiers Program (NGS), which currently trains approximately 70 young athletes each season.
  
• Sasha Dingle: Skier turned meditation teacher, and the founder and director of Mountain Mind Project. Sasha has competed at the highest level of skiing and mountain biking, winning the Freeskiing World Tour and competing on the Freeride World Tour and Enduro World Series. She is featured in the all-women ski film "Nexus", which tells the story of two teenage refugees escaping the Vietnam War, falling in love with skiing and passing it on to their daughters: Sasha, and her cousin, Krystin. The film highlights how change can happen in one generation when someone falls in love with skiing.
  
• Kim Havell - International expedition skier and guide who has skied impressive feats, including the first female descent of the notorious Otter Body on the Grand Teton, and, in 2014, she went on to be the first woman to ski-guide the Grand Teton. Kim guides for EXUM Mountain Guides, Jackson Hole Mountain Resort Alpine Guides, and for Ice Axe Expeditions internationally. She has been an instructor and/or guide for numerous companies and ski camps since 2002, as well as being a 12-year past member of the San Miguel County Search and Rescue Team (and Advisory Board member), with medical, avalanche, and rescue certifications.
  
• Corey Jackson: Faction Skis Athlete, as seen in "The Collective", Corey was a high ranked IFSA athlete, Grand Prix competitor, and a coach for Ireland in the 2018 Olympics for Halfpipe.
  
• Kent Kreitler: Dubbed "One of the Most Influential Skiers of the past 35 Years" by Powder Magazine, X Games medalist, World Tour of Freeskiing title-holder.
  
• Jeff Leger, aka Dr. Huckinstuff: Jeff is the voice behind the JHMR Snow Report and has been for been for 8 years. Jeff has spent more than three decades immersed in the Jackson Hole Ski scene and is famous for his huge airs and cliff drops. Jeff has competed in JHMR's Kings and Queens of Corbet's with a photo of his backflip at the inaugural event won first place in the Sports Action category at the NPPA photo journalist clip competition. Jeff is a Stio athlete and skis for Atomic.
  
• Melissa Malm became the first professional female ski patroller on the Jackson Hole Ski Patrol in 1978. Back when untracked powder lasted for days after a storm, lift lines were nonexistent and the side country was a wild adventure and closed. For nearly five decades Rendezvous Mountain and the mountains of Wyoming have been her office and playground. 
  
• Max Martin: Maxis a professional skier based out of his hometown Jackson, Wyoming. In his early career, Max was a highly competitive ski racer. He was dedicated to the sport and competed on the collegiate NCAA Division I circuit with Plymouth State University. His technical skills from his racing career translates to his style of big mountain skiing. His approach to lines are calculated, smooth, and fast. Max believes that the mountains are one of life’s most powerful teachers. He is passionate about sharing the lessons that he has learned through the mountains and hopes to be an icon for those looking for inspiration or motivation.
  
• Morgan McGlashon - The youngest woman to ski the Grand Teton, Morgan has completed ski mountaineering descents, alpine climbs, and obscure human powered adventures in places such as the Tetons, Alps, Andes, Cascades, Wind River Range, Japan, and Iceland. After years of competing as a professional freeskier and working through a degree in geology from Middlebury College, Morgan returned to the Tetons full time to guide backcountry skiing and alpine climbing year-round.
  
• Wade McKoy: Wade has been photographing ski action since 1976. In the '70s and ’80s, he was among the first to document the budding, big mountain ski culture about to explode in Jackson Hole.
  
• Sam Schwartz: Professional skier based out of Jackson. His specialties are humongous airs and massive backflips. Competed in the Subaru Freeride Series and the Freeride World Qualifiers
  
• Sophia Schwartz - Professional mogul skier turned big mountain skier and ski mountaineer. Sophia spent three years on the U.S. Freestyle Ski Team, and has continued her ski career by starring in multiple films, skiing Denali, and becoming a mentor to others.
  
• Bobby Thomson is an entrepreneur, skier, and all around great guy in Jackson Hole.  Bobby is responsible for creating some of the most beautiful and inspiring ski content on the internet and you’ll often find his videos on JHMR’s website and social media accounts. He is a sought-after MMS Instructor who is the go-to-choice for celebrities who want to have the best experience on the mountain. Bobby is Jackson-famous for skiing more than 100,000 vertical feet in one day during both the 20/21 and 21/22 ski seasons. He holds the current Jackson Hole Mountain Resort vertical record of 125,000 feet skied in a day. Bobby is sponsored by Bomber Skis.
• Benny Wilson: One of founders of The Jackson Hole Airforce (JHAF) and a huge influence on extreme skiing in North America and beyond.