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Baker Boyd is an absolute freak. It’s not an insult. It’s what he calls himself and his group of friends, “Aspen’s fastest ski gang,” aka The Freaks. The homegrown collective began skiing together on Aspen Mountain as kids, honing their craft and perfecting their model: Ski fast, ski hard, and ski as much as you can.
As a co-founder of The Freaks, Baker reps the gang’s ethos everywhere he goes. He is a monster skier. He skis fast and powerfully, but with a quiet form and smooth style. He makes the hard stuff look easy. It’s like he’s standing still, and the mountain moves around him — A complete natural.
Baker’s come a long way since his first sponsorship at age 6. He’s gained more attention from the ski world outside Aspen, thanks to his newfound productivity with content, growing media presence, and support from various outdoor brands. Baker’s been a Polartec athlete since 2017 and has put our gear through the paces. He goes hard on his equipment and tests our full range of fabric technologies to the max, so we know that Polartec gear stays ski-ready.
Because of his sponsorships and growing media exposure in the ski world, Baker was prominently featured in the last two Warren Miller films: Timeless (2019) & Future Retro (2020). But for those who can’t catch the premieres, Baker makes his own video content too, and you can see a couple of them below. Baker Boyd is making a name for himself. And the best part is, he does it for fun and he does it for The Freaks.
Watch Baker rip through his home turf of The Rockies. Odaroloc has a little bit of everything Baker likes to ski in Colorado; touring, pillows, lifts, snowmobile laps, and couloirs with some friends. Baker kept Polartec® Alpha® active insulation on him at all times, because varying weather conditions require versatile temperature regulation.
Step into Hokkaido’s backcountry, also known as Ezo, where Baker shreds through the treasure trove of powder found in Northern Japan. Conditions are unpredictable in this terrain, which is why Baker rocked his breathable waterproof Polartec® NeoShell® jacket to keep him dry inside and out.
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Baker Boyd is a Freak. That's the name of his group of friends, "Aspen's fastest ski gang," but it's also an appropriate term for him. Outsize strength, fast and fluid in difficult terrain, technique honed through years of racing and banging out laps on Aspen Mountain, constantly composed. He's one of those people who's visibly at a world class level. One of his best friends described him as "good at anything physical.". Baker grew up skiing in Telluride and Aspen, moved to California in high school to play club soccer, ended up getting into surfing more, and ultimately came back to the mountains to ski. He's the type of person you could envision being good at anything they put their mind to, but skiing is his thing. He skis tall, hands up, shoulders square. But more than anything he skis fast and powerfully. Exuding confidence through his strong, quiet form, his smooth style makes it look easy in a way that leaves you wanting to ski harder. It’s a model for how it can be done. Recently his skiing has been getting more exposure thanks to his newfound productivity with content and continued effort to get to bigger, untracked lines. It's not surprising, but to those who've known him it comes as a bit of a relief, that, after years of just skiing and not taking the time to shoot or compete, his talent isn't going unnoticed by others.
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