Name: Brayden Charette

Age: 26
Social Media Handles: @braydenjcharette on Instagram

Hometown: Winthrop, WA

Home Mountain: Loup Loup Ski Bowl

Sponsors: LibTech, 1910, Pow Gloves, and WWS Boardshop

Stance: Regular

Setup: Cambered Lib Tech board, Bent Metal binding, Vans Infuse or Verse boots. Pos 18 in the front, neg 3 in the back, and 21.5 width

Watch Brayden in TWISTED Gs from The B.S. Boys

How did you find Snowboarding? My father introduced me to boarding

Years snowboarding? 16 years sliding sideways

Best Contest Result? Awarded Best Method at the Brain Bowl session at Mt. Baker

Favorite Snowboard Video? Absinthe Films’ Heavy Mental

Biggest Inspiration? My mother

What motivates you? My friends and storm cycles

What rider from the new generation is the gonna be the future of snowboarding? Sims brothers/ Teer brothers

Most Underrated Rider? Matteo Soltane

Favorite Old Head? Ryan Davis

Best Style? Craig Kelly

Most Cooked Homie? Mitchell Davern

Most Talented Rider? Cannon Cummins

Sketchiest Homie? Dagan Schwartz

Favorite filmer? Olivier Gittler

Who brings the best energy? Miles Freelan

Worst trick? Frontboard pretzel

Steel or Powder? Powder

Dream Sponsor (Doesn’t Have to Be Snowboarding-Related)? Airbnb would be sick

Worst Trend in Snowboarding? Overly baggy clothes

Biggest fear? Avalanches and spiders

Is there a time where you should have died but made it out unscathed? Or sketchiest moment? Missed pop cab5 over the Mt. Baker Road Gap, cased the snow bank

Warm up or straight to business? straight to biz

When do you ride your worst? too stoned

Best and worst place to snowboard? Alaska best, worst Antarctica?

Interests Outside of Snowboarding? Surfing, riding moto, paintballing, frisbee golf, skating

A moment that you’ll never forget? Watching Koon Man backflip to belly flop on the Beast right after Austen Sweeten front 7 and got swept by the avalanche (no snow in landing after)

Best advice you ever received? Anything from my mother

Shout Outs: My parents, sisters, sponsors, Davis family and all my friends.

Describe snowboarding in one word: Free

Watch Brayden get some early season Mt. Baker laps in