Fun Comes First with Maggie Voisin
Next Level Skiing
Welcome back to the Next Level Skiing podcast, brought to you by Wagner Skis. Maggie Voisin soared from her Whitefish, Montana, roots into three Olympics and 11 X Games, where she’s collected 7 slopestyle medals. Now 26, she’s bounced back from several injuries and surgeries to build a soaring career in front of the cameras, filming with Teton Gravity Research and announcing for the X Games. She’s navigated incredible pressure as one of the youngest American Winter Olympians, as devastating grief, finding strength and solace on skis. Listen in as Maggie talks about transferring her...
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Mali Noyes is The Insatiable Skier
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Welcome back to the Next Level Skiing podcast, brought to you by Wagner Skis. Salt Lake City skier Mali Noyes, in the spring of 2025, channeled her Nordic skiing roots and more than a decade of ski touring in Utah’s Wasatch to set a new bar for swift steep skiing in the West. The 36-year-old skied all 93 lines detailed in Andrew McClean’s seminal steep skiing bible “The Chuting Gallery. It took her only 47 days. An epic achievement. Listen in as Mali shares insights into how her Nordic skiing background fueled her exploration of backcountry steeps, pushing through mental fatigue,...
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Pillow Popping with Parkin Costain
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Welcome back to the Next Level Skiing podcast, brought to you by Wagner Skis. 26-year-old Parkin Costain grew up in Whitefish as a skiing prodigy. For the last decade, he has been pushing big-mountain skiing with a high-speed, swift-footed style in the heaviest, most technical terrain around. With bust-out performances (like stomping a ridiculous double backflip into Corbets at Kings and Queens) and jaw-dropping segments in Warren Miller and TGR, Parker’s fluid, athletic style is helping to define today’s big mountain skiing. In this episode of Next Level Skiing, Parker discusses...
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A Ski For Every Skier with Pete Wagner
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Pete Wagner was building proprietary software to customize golf clubs when he bought a pair of skis in the early 2000s. The mechanical engineer and computer scientist wrestled those skis for a season before realizing he had purchased the wrong skis for his style. Why wasn’t anyone designing skis like he was designing golf clubs or like boot fitters adjusted ski boots? In 2006, the expert skier launched Wagner Custom Skis with an exploratory questionnaire that helps skier identify their dream skis and software that guides a warehouse full of machines in building those skis. Nearly 20...
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The perfect turn is the next turn, with Willie Volckhausen
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Welcome back to the Next Level Skiing podcast, brought to you by Wagner Skis. Willie Volckhausen started skiing when he was 2 and raced with Sunlight's local ski club for over a decade. He spent 18 years coaching young skiers with the Aspen Valley Ski Club, developing not just ripping racers but athletes with a lifelong passion for skiing. And now he’s a ski instructor with the Aspen Ski School who spends his summers working his family’s farm near Paonia. Over his decades of being coached and coaching, Willie’s picked up more than a few techniques for improving our turns. Listen in and...
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Staying balanced with Brody Leven
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Welcome back to the Next Level Skiing podcast, brought to you by Wagner Skis. Brody Leven doesn’t dabble. He’s an all-in type of skier. When he decided he was done with park skiing, he moved from 100 days of high-flying park time every season to 100 days of climbing and skiing mountains. And now it’s been 10 years since the Fischer Ski-sponsored athlete has ridden a chairlift. He’s never eaten meat. During the pandemic, he started exercising outside every day. Now he’s more than four years in without missing a single day. He’s a lifelong vegetarian, a vehement climate advocate,...
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Staying Aggressive in the Sharky and Spicy with Rob Dickinson
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Welcome back to the Next Level Skiing podcast, brought to you by Wagner Skis. Unless you live in Crested Butte, you likely haven’t heard about Rob Dickinson. He’s a former big mountain competitor who moves like a ninja through the Butte’s scary steps. You really only catch glimpses of Rob … a flash in the trees, a splash of snow on a rocky face, a blur beneath impeccable tracks. He’s coming up on 20 years skiing Crested Butte and is one of the mountain’s handful of inspirational soul skiers. Rob doesn’t have a sponsor. He runs his own painting business. But he’s...
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Lou Dawson is Our Skintrack Artist
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Welcome back to the Next Level Skiing podcast, brought to you by Wagner Skis. Lou Dawson is a ski pioneer who has been setting the skintrack for countless skiers for decades. Since he arrived in the Roaring Fork Valley as a teenager in the mid-1960s, Dawson has helped shape backcountry skiing. From being the first person to ski all of Colorado’s 14ers — finishing in the early 1990s — to meticulously documenting nearly every technological advancement in ski gear, Dawson has shepherded backcountry skiing from its nascent roots in the 1970s to today’s global juggernaut. His recent...
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Skiing Every Aspect with Mike Hattrup
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Welcome back to the Next Level Skiing podcast, brought to you by Wagner Skis. Mike Hattrup has moved from bump skiing boss, to ski movie star to gear designer, covering smooch ground on snow that his work has touched just about every skier in the sport. From chasing his four siblings on the slopes of Alpental to winning mogul medals to hanging with Stump, Schmidt, and Blake in the seminal “” to building backcountry skis and gear for top ski shops, Hattrup’s career has covered a lot of ground. Today, he’s the director of skiing for Eleven Experience, helping folks plunder powder in...
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The joy and ineffable awesomeness of skiing with Amie Engerbretson
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Welcome back to the Next Level Skiing podcast, brought to you by Wagner Skis. Amie Engerbretson grew up ripping Palisades Tahoe, the daughter of a pro skier and filmmaker. She has starred in dozens of ski movies, highlighting a grace and flow honed from years of training as a dancer. Now she’s making her own movies, advocating for climate action, and helping women hone confidence on and off snow. Tune in and hear Amie about how dancing influences her skiing, how films can reveal the emotional challenges and rewards of skiing, and how to foster confidence for improving our time on...
info_outlineWelcome back to the Next Level Skiing podcast, brought to you by Wagner Skis. Maggie Voisin soared from her Whitefish, Montana, roots into three Olympics and 11 X Games, where she’s collected 7 slopestyle medals. Now 26, she’s bounced back from several injuries and surgeries to build a soaring career in front of the cameras, filming with Teton Gravity Research and announcing for the X Games. She’s navigated incredible pressure as one of the youngest American Winter Olympians, as devastating grief, finding strength and solace on skis. Listen in as Maggie talks about transferring her slopestyle-honed mental fortitude over to big lines in Alaska, strategies for healing, recovering from “the hardest thing ever,” and inspiring the next generation of female rippers.
Topics:
1:10 Growing up in Whitefish. Dad was a semi-reformed ski bum.
2:00 “Something in the water in Whitefish.” Tanner Hall. Tommy Moe. Parkin Costain.
3:50 15 years old and winning silver in first X Games months before skiing in the Olympics
4:20 Younger sibling rippers
6:30 The transition from a decade of teams, coaches and training to filming in AK
8:40 Mental fortitude in slopestyle moving over to steep lines in Alaska
12:10 Breathwork to settle nerves
13:40 Calming concerns around injuries
14:30 Four knee and one ankle surgeries
16:00 Red light, sauna, yoga, breathing, stretching and mindset. “The body is powerful. It’s going to heal.”
17:40 The importance of rest, meditation
21:30 “The hardest thing ever.” Losing Michael to suicide.
23:40 Living and carrying Michael’s legacy forward. “I walk through this life differently.”
26:40 “They are everywhere.”
29:00 A deep, internal knowing that the strength was there.
30:00 “We are human beings who need community.”
31:00 Announcing at the Winter X Games with deep knowledge and a feminine perspective
34:30 Inspiring the next generation.
35:30 Best advice: “Fun comes first.”
Quotes:
“The mind can just take over. We all know this.”
“I always take a deep breath, and on the exhale is when I drop, and I feel like that just really centers me.”
“In this world, we’re always athletes.”
“If I can live every day, half the way that [my brother] lived his 23 years, that’s what I wake up every day and remember.”
Resources:
Maggie Voisin Unleashed: An Exclusive Season Edit