When you grow up having Baldface as your backyard you got a good chance of picking powder of steel but we might see a rebrand from Estelle, read on to get her boarding background, inspirations, and her picks of who’s who for riding these days.

Name: Estelle Pensiero

Age: 22

Social Media Handles: Instagram at @estellepensiero

Hometown: Nelson, BC

Home Mountain: Whitewater

Sponsors: Arbor Snowboarding, The North Face, Db Bags and Deathgrip gloves

Stance: Regular

Setup: I ride the Arbor Veda 154 and Sequoia bindings. Hana boots from vans, Angles are 15 and -6 and i just measure the width with my forearm every time haha

How did you find Snowboarding? I spent the first few winters of my life living at Baldface and my mom spent a lot of time teaching me how to ski at first. I got on a board when I was around 5 and never looked back!

Years snowboarding? 17

Best Contest Result? 2nd at Research and Development last year

Favorite Snowboard Video? Robotfood’s AFTERBANG!

Biggest Inspiration? The Full Moon girls

What motivates you? My family and friends, when the sun comes out, getting excited about having a new experience, a new crew, a new zone, maybe a new trick

What rider from the new generation is the gonna be the future of snowboarding? Mia Jones 1000000%

Most Underrated Rider? Jack Macdougall

Favorite Old Head? Jamie Lynn – sorry for calling you an old head

Best style? Also Jamie

Most cooked homie? Ellery duhhh

Most talented rider? Hayden Tyler

Favorite filmer? Sam Tuff

Who brings the best energy? Hana Beaman

Worst trick? 2340

Steel or Powder? Steel, I am rebranding.

Dream Sponsor (Doesn’t Have to Be Snowboarding-Related): Guinness

Worst Trend in Snowboarding? Pretending that you’re not trying

Biggest fear? Maybe getting stuck when my house is burning down

Is there a time where you should have died but made it out unscathed? Or sketchiest moment? Every single time I load my sled onto the sled deck is a near death experience.

Warm up or straight to business? DIRECTLY to business

When do you ride best? Riding in the sun right in the middle of a group of people I love.

When do you ride your worst? In a rail garden 🙁

Best and worst place to snowboard? Best place is Baldface, but I just want to pow surf with my dad when I go back… The worst for me is Saas-Fe

Interests Outside of Snowboarding? I don’t really think that there’s anything I’m not interested in! Right now I’m especially interested in catching a steelhead.

A moment that you’ll never forget? My first time seeing the mountains in Alaska, It’s sometimes still hard to believe that mountains like that exist.

Best advice you ever received? My dad says to talk yourself into it, don’t talk yourself out of it.

Words to Live By: Can’t get hurt while you’re in the air!

Shout Outs: Thanks to my sponsors and my family for all the support, everyone who ever took a chance on me and of course all the friends too, I love you all.

Describe snowboarding in one word: Community.

Watch Estelle drop into Alaska along some dude named Travis Rice