Breckenridge resident John Spencer may be the oldest guy on the Freeride World Qualifier circuit, but that doesn’t pose a challenge for him.
Instead, the 52-year-old has steadily worked himself up the ranks, landing at 45th overall after the competition season last year.
The Freeride World Qualifiers feed into the 18-rider Freeride World Tour, where the world’s best freeride skiers and snowboarders compete on some of the biggest, most jagged mountains in the world.
Spencer got into the sport close to 11 years ago and has lived in the area for the past 30 years. Spencer has skied since he was a kid back in Michigan, but it was when he moved to Colorado that he started to stack 100-day seasons.
Along the way, Spencer has grown as a skier, learned how to compete at his highest level and even worked his way out of alcoholism.
