Keeping up with Pip Hunt

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Pro freeskier Phillipa Hunt, who goes by Pip, likes to stay busy. This winter, she juggled skiing, mid-winter mountain biking, coaching for Utah's AltaBird junior freeride team, filming with Futuristic Films for her sponsor Marmot, and working as a trainer at a Salt Lake City Crossfit gym.

But there's one thing 23-year-old Hunt didn't do this winter: compete. In 2005, at the age of 16, Hunt won the junior division of the Freeskiing World Tour's U.S. Extreme Freeskiiing Championships at her home mountain of Crested Butte. She went on to compete in the FWT's adult division, with many top 10 finishes over the last few years. But this year, she chose not to compete on the tour. She's been focusing on other things. "It was awesome and I have no regrets," she says. "I was at Crested Butte coaching and could have competed at that stop, but I decided that instead I would just go and ski for myself."