Behind Every Skier is a Badass Mom

This article appears in the 2025 Photo Annual print issue of POWDER Magazine. The magazine is still available on newsstands near you, and can be shipped directly to your front door.The Mom LineMy mother skied the same day she gave birth to me. On Ellen Smoothy’s slim 5’3” frame, the unborn ten pounds of destabilising ballast relegated her to the mellow piste at the local hill. At midnight the bell tolled, inducing a laborious three-hour drive through the dark heart of a mid-win