Name: Grey Katko

Age: 24

Social Media Handles: @gkatko on Instagram

Hometown: Essex, Connecticut

Home Mountain: Stratton Mountain, Vermont

Sponsors: Nitro Snowboards, Dang Shades

Stance: Goofy

Setup: Nitro T1, Nitro Team Pro Bindings, Nitro Venture Pro TLS, 21 inches wide, positive 12, negative 9

How did you find snowboarding? My mom and dad brought us skiing from a young age and I always wanted to snowboard. Once I tried snowboarding I switched.

Years snowboarding? 15 years

Best Contest Result? 3rd place at Eastern Boarder X Loon’s Last Call

Favorite Snowboard Video? Tommy Gesme Park Footage

Biggest Inspiration? My grandfather Pops, rest in peace legend

What motivates you? friends, family, and tiramisu

What rider from the new generation is the gonna be the future of snowboarding? Sully Platt

Most Underrated Rider? Liam Johnson

Favorite Old Head? Dave Redden, also legend

Best style? Tommy Gesme

Most cooked homie? Squid hahaha

Most talented rider? Eli Bouchard is always doing something insane

Sketchiest homie? All the homies are dialed

Favorite filmer? Bryden Bowley

Who brings the best energy? Gavin McNeil funny ah homie

Worst trick? Cab 180 on boardslide pretzel

Steel or Powder? Steel

Biggest fear? Needles

A moment that you’ll never forget? Rupturing my spleen catching toes. Hurt so bad

Dream Sponsor (Doesn’t Have to Be Snowboarding-Related)? Nintendo

Warm up or straight to business? Straight to business

When do you ride best? The morning, fresh corduroy

When do you ride your worst? When I’m cold and I forgot my earbuds

Best and worst place to snowboard? Switzerland, the riding is insane but the ski racers suck

Interests outside of snowboarding? food, camping, climbing, more food

Best advice you ever received? Snowboarding doesn’t owe you anything

Words to live by? Don’t blow it

Shout Outs: Mom and Dad, Milo family, Dave Redden, all the homies, Nitro Crew

Is there a time where you should have died but made it out unscathed? At Last Call I went fat to flat straight to my ass. I couldn’t feel my legs for a few seconds.

Describe snowboarding in one word: Peace

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