Eric Pollard (skier)

Eric Pollard is an American snow freeskier and film editor from Welches, Oregon and currently resides in the Hood River region of Oregon. He has been a professional skier for Line Skis for over 15 years and also designs skis for Line Skis. He has had his own line of clothing at Causwell and K2 which never reached the market due to failures by the brands attempting to manufacture the goods. He debuted a line of outerwear with Dakine in Fall 2015.

Eric Pollard
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Home Mountain Mt Hood
Ski Sponsor Line Skis
Outerwear & Accessories Sponsor Dakine
Helmet & Goggle Sponsor Anon Optics
Retail / Shop Sponsor evo
Other Sponsors Clif Bar
Kicker Audio
Marker
Mt. Hood Meadows
Timberline

Skiing

Eric Pollard began skiing professionally at the age of fifteen. He learned on Mt. Hood, where snowboarders far outnumber skiers and as a result developed a unique style more closely resembling snowboarders. Because of this he developed the first fully symmetrical ski—equal height tip and tail, with a symmetrical flex.[1] Pollard mostly works with filming and skiing backcountry rather than competitions.

Nimbus Independent Films

In 2007, Pollard created Nimbus Independent with Pep Fujas, Andy Mahre and Chris Benchetler.[2] Nimbus was an early producer of webisodes. His goal in creating the company was to show skiing as it is, with all the ups and downs. The company produces short films several times a year showing highlights of its creators' seasons.[3]

Personal life

Eric initially intended to go to art school and become a graphic designer, but ended up skiing with his family and loved it.[4] He designs skis for Line Skis, and also had his own line of clothing there as well as with Causwell.[5]

gollark: Ethically, I don't think other people have the right to stop someone from deciding what stuff they can do with their own body/life/whatever.
gollark: You can't just tell people to not be "insane" or whatever, and it's their body/life/whatever.
gollark: What should be legally allowed or whatever and what you *should do* are different things.
gollark: Well, I personally feel that there's not much of a good ethical case for *forbidding* it, although you probably should try and make sure they actually want to.
gollark: It seems perfectly ethical to me.

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-04-25. Retrieved 2013-03-01.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. Meyr, Kyle (2 May 2014) Nimbus Independent’s new film: After The Sky Falls RedBull.com
  3. http://nimbusindependent.com/about/
  4. http://www.rip.tv/blog/articles/the-eric-pollard-interview/
  5. http://www.newschoolers.com/readnews/3493.0/Causwell-Welcomes-Eric-Pollard
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