December Freeride Newsletter
Freeride Program Update: December 2025
- Intro
- November Re-Cap
- December Events
- Intro:
December brings the start of our winter season! Even with the unseasonably warm and dry start, Freeride has been busy getting final details dialed in for the season!
We are anticipating delayed starts with both of our venue partners. We’d like to give a huge shoutout to the hardworking crews at both Snow King and Jackson Hole Mountain Resort who are working around the clock to get us on snow as soon as possible. We’ll be doing our best to balance athlete safety with our available terrain options over the next couple of weeks. Please bear with us, read our communications and be ready for some flexibility in training as we continue waiting for winter to show up.
All families should be receiving our weekly Friday updates. Please let me know if you are not (collin@jhskiclub.org)! These emails will be containing more and more information as we dive deeper into competition season with registration information, practice changes, etc.
Event and training schedules are live for the season (still waiting on details for April championship events). Take a look at the respective links below. Sync these to your google calendars to easily keep track of training schedules!
This newsletter will contain a re-cap of what's happened since our last newsletter and an update of events coming up this month.
- Collin Rehm, 12/1
- November Re-Cap
Woodward Park City Fall Camp 1:
Coaches Toby and Syd took a Freeride crew down to WWPC for a great weekend of training on the trampolines and skate ramps.
James Kail on the blade ramp!
“Our fall weekend trip down to use Woodward Park City was a quick, but productive one. Despite not being able to get on snow yet, these trips are great for getting the juices flowing with tricks and air awareness on the ramps and tramps at Woodward’s state of the art indoor facility. For some it was getting the feeling for their first front flips and backflips, and for others it was dialing in their double corks and cork 720’s on rollerblades into the foam pit. It’s undeniable that that progression was had for all! A trip like this also serves as a great early season team building, as well as an opportunity for the coaches to build more a relationship with the athletes going into the season.”
Toby Koekkoek - USASA Coordinator
Stock photo of the trampoline floor!
Woodward Park City is an incredible training facility and a lot of fun for the coaches and athletes alike. We look forward to returning Dec. 12th - 14th on snow!
Dryland Training:
Lots of great views from Josie's this fall!
Dryland training is done for the season! Thanks for a great fall everyone!
Grades 9-12:
Thanks to our HS crew for an awesome fall of dryland training! Congratulations to Porter Farren and Odin Casey for near perfect attendance and excusing all absences! The hard work and dedication is going to pay off in spades during the winter season.
This is our second season running a strength focused conditioning program with our HS aged athletes and I’m very impressed with the effort put forth on the team. You know who you are. We look forward to expanding this opportunity in the future and continuing to make it bigger and better year after year.
Grades 5-8:
Grades 5-8 had a great season of drylands as well! Thanks to coaches Syd and Orion (and Houli) for such great practices. We were happy to pivot to on-snow for the last few practices and get the kids on skis and hiking rails as a warm-up to the season.
Congratulations to Violet Kastor for near perfect attendance and for excusing all absences!
- December Events:
Black Tie, Blue Jeans Ski Ball: December 6, 2025
The annual Black Tie, Blue Jeans Ski Ball is coming right up! This Saturday at the top of the Bridger Gondola. More information is available HERE.
JHSC Winter Carnival/Open Schools Night: December 16, 2025
JHSC Winter Carnival is back, come see our athletes in their element, and meet with local schools in the Snow King Lodgeroom. All proceeds of this event support scholarship!
That’s all for now! See you next month.
- Collin Rehm
Quote of the Month:
“The biggest seasons have the slowest starts. This is definitely a fact.” - Collin Rehm