Name: Ben Leoni
Age: 26
Hometown: Weare, NH
Meathead Films appeared in: Wanderland
Sponsors: Nordica Skis and Boots, Eastern Mountain Sports, Smith Optics,
Competition Results (skiing or nonskiing):
Semifinalist: 2008 US Freeskiing Nationals
7th: Superfinals – 2008 Salomon Extreme Freeride Championships (11th overall)
3rd: Superfinals – 2007 Colorado Freeride Championships (7th overall)
2nd: 2008, 2006 Enduro 10 hour endurance ski race at Arapahoe Basin
2nd: Jay Peak IFSA 2008
1st: 6th Grade Geography Bee at Weare Middle School
Home Resort: Pats Peak
Now Residing: South Royalton, Vermont
Favorite Moment from last winter: Tucks in early March And stowe in mid December after 34”.
When I’m not shredding gnar, I’m (hobbies): Studying Civil Procedure (not a hobby), hiking, fishing, sailing, Saving the world from environmental destruction, putting the “gun” back in shotgunning a beer.
Skiing Hero: Rooster, Geoff, Shane McConkey, Billy Poole, Candide, Brooks Motley, Dupee, Marty.
Non-Skiing Hero: Gus Chiggins
Favorite trick or maneuver: Whatever it is LJ is doing these days
Favorite Eastern ski location: The Mighty Whites
Best part about East Coast skiing is: Hardwood trees
Worst part about East Coast skiing is: Running into hardwood trees
The best ski style is: If it involves a Spaffy, it’s pretty stylish.
Hidden talent: I can jump pretty far from a standstill. I can memorize maps.
Inner Animal: jackalope
What makes you a Meathead? I love skiing and I love steak. I guess that does it.
And finally, take this space to write something witty, creative, funny, or let the people know why you rule: For the last three winters, I’ve been living out west, filming, competing, and skiing with some good friends from college. Ski career was just starting to get up and running last year when I decided to give it all up and move back east…….for law school. While being back east has been awesome, law school has cut ski days to a third of what I had been doing. Luckily, I get out with the Meatheads from time to time and am finding some great spots here in the east that are as good as anything I’ve skied out west. Plus I probably couldn’t be going to law school in a better place, I skin out my door up the hill for some quality BC all winter, go fly fishing on the river next to school, have a bridge to jump off of on warm days, and get to tube down the White all summer.
