“But in general it wasn’t that whole snowboard vs. “I think the first day it was allowed at Stowe, I was with my brothers and we got worked.
We got our asses kicked those first days,” Jones said. Up until that point, most of the boarding the Jones brothers would accomplish would be in the backyard of their grandfather’s home in Stowe, where they would wear headlamps and fool around on their boards until being called in for dinner.īy comparison, hopping on a chairlift and navigating much steeper terrain was something entirety different for everybody. When Stowe first allowed snowboarding in 1988, Jeremy was among the first in line to receive a permit, which snowboarders needed in addition to a pass. It was a no-brainer, even considering the boys’ love for hockey. Or the long family car rides to see grandpa every weekend and the ability to ski one of the Northeast’s best destinations for Alpine activities every week. Hockey on weekends, and the early morning practices and long bus trips that came with the sport. “It’s what our family was all about.” That is, of course, until, their parents put them to a choice. “We’d do tons of hockey,” Todd Jones said. It was also a decision that the family didn’t take lightly, especially considering how deep the kids were into playing other team sports.
That’s not to deny the attraction of Stowe, but it does admit the distance the Jones family committed to every weekend, a 536-mile roundtrip that sounds like a foreign undertaking to Jones these days, living 10 minutes from Squaw Valley in Truckee, Calif. “My parents, out of their love for the mountains, we would do the drive on Friday and on Sunday, and a drive that, now that I have kids,” Jones laughs, “I would never have done.” “Coming from the Cape, that was radical stuff. His grandfather had moved to Stowe, where he would greet his grandchildren on a snowmobile in the rural darkness of a wintry Friday night. “For me, coming from the Cape, I might as well have been going to Alaska,” Jones said, now seated at a table along the Harborwalk, fiddling with his board as he answers questions about his new movie, growing up in Massachusetts, and his role as an ambassador for the growth of snowboarding.
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“Deeper,” released in 2010, featured Jones and other top free riders explored untouched snowboarding boundaries, while 2012’s “Further” explored that backcountry mission to a new degree. It’s the third of a Jones-focused trilogy from TGR, founded by older brothers Todd and Steve in 1996.
In “Higher,” Jones reflects in great part on how his past laid the groundwork for whom he has become, leaning heavily on the nuance that one of the world’s most popular backcountry snowboarders was raised in an area where the dunes at Cahoon Hollow may represent the steepest vertical offering. As one of the world’s most notable big mountain freeriders, Jones’ prowess on a snowboard has made him an adventure sports icon, one that his brother, Todd, puts on par with skateboarding’s Tony Hawk or surfing’s Kelly Slater, pioneers of their sports not only because of their athletic skills, but also because of the passion each has spread from his specific craft.īut in the realm of a cool October evening on the Boston waterfront, he’s just a kid from the Cape riding a skateboard.
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