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MEET LYNSEY ANN DYER – three Ys, no Is. The big-mountain skier is a mix between Punky Brewster and Rainbow Bright, but her nice-as-spice attitude has about zero to do with her skiing. The Junior Olympic downhill champion and Montana State University racer knows how to huck huge. Personal highlight: Sticking the 60-plus foot Cave double-drop at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort backcountry for the 2006 Teton Gravity Research film, “Anomaly.” She’s also filmed for Warren Miller, Wink Inc. Productions and Storm Show Studios. And she was the 2004 International Free Skiers Association North American Tour champion. Most people may not know that this Rossignol athlete’s face can be seen in life-size posters in tram docks across the French Alps, and the talented artist has designed a line of organic Rossi shirts for the 2008-09 season. She may be one of the most visible big-mountain skiers in the industry, but her humility and appreciation for life gave her the idea to create a nonprofit to help women reach their potential. — Vanessa Pierce
SHEJUMPS CO-FOUNDER LYNSEY DYER
First published in the Jackson Hole News&Guide, spring 2006. Photo by Price Chambers www.pricechambers.com.
Artist, freeskier knows how to fly high
By Vanessa Pierce
There’s a reason Lynsey Dyer lives her life up in the air.
She’s a Pisces, an admittingly flighty, artsy person. She’s a blend of floaty, mistakenly flaky, and frightfully funny. Simply, she’s colorful. But in Lynsey language, she prefers a made-up word to describe herself like kaleidophoskier. Translation: Pro freeskier and photographer/illustrator with a colorful personality. Huh?! Meet Lynsey Ann Dyer – three Ys, no Is.
The SheJumps co-founder said she loves being a photographer and illustrator, and creatively describes much of her work as “graphical.”
“I like making up words,” she says over an eclectic meal of corn on the cob dripping with pesto and extra salt at “cuz’s” house. You might know her cuz, pioneering women’s big-mountain skier and longtime Jackson resident A.J. Cargill. The next day, recalling how odd that night’s meal was as she sipped a “fluffy” Wild Tribe drink at Jackson’s Pearl Street Bagels, she asks: “Am I eclectic?”
You could definitely say Dyer is colorful. Her favorite word is “eclectic,” after all. She has lion-like locks, wears stylish clothes (from discount store, Ross, she likes to point out) and one of those “happy sticks” (a multi-colored thread wrapped around a strand of hair that she’s had for eight years). She’s an artist who doesn’t like to be confined to boundaries. She hates drawing in the lines. In fact, she can’t. One time a friend asked her to paint his bedroom, and she didn’t even begin before it was over.
“I couldn’t even tape in a straight line,” she says, “and even though it was for a friend, I was basically let go … Straight lines are pretty much the most awful thing for me. It’s always good to push the limits, draw outside the lines.”
Growing up in Sun Valley, Idaho, she had to follow a “line” while ski racing, which she quickly learned was not for her. She was good at it, though, and clinched a Junior Olympic downhill championship. But after spending three seasons racing for the Montana State University alpine team, she became sick of the calculation of skiing a line and told her friends she was off to be an extreme skier. They didn’t believe her until she won the 2004 International Free Skiers Association North American Tour.
Jibbing in Valle Nevado, Chile. Photo by Gabe Rogel Rogelphoto.com.
Exploring a mountain face fit her artsy self better. Give her room and she can splash a line down any slope. This year Dyer said she was psyched to “stomp” a 60-foot double cliff off the backside of Cody Peak as Teton Gravity Research filmed. You might recognize her stylish skiing in films by TGR, Warren Miller, Big Bang and Arris, and a soon-to-be show on NBC.
Art, like skiing, is one of her passions.
“You can get lost in your work,” she says about art, “where all of a sudden you are so in the moment and you feed off that. And that carries over to anything you get pleasure out of, those things that light you up.”
Once she graduated from MSU with a graphic design degree, she knew somehow, someway, she would make art into a career. Her style is graphical, bold and happy. She was tutored in graphical imagery in Italy – during her junior year in college – where she fell in love with woodblock printing, or the art of cutting out a design in a block of wood, placing ink on its surface and stamping it on paper. Since then she has tried to bring that element of texture and touch to her other art pursuits like photography.
Dyer hopes to inspire SheJumps women through her love of skiing, graphical illustration, and photography. Dyer has an intuitive ability to see and capture a portrait on her camera the moment someone’s “face lights up” when he or she talks about a friend, sister, brother, lover. It was never hard for her to see it, she said. It first happened in kindergarten when she won a drawing contest and complimented a classmate on his art, and his “face lit up.” She’s a natural “cheerleader,” an always positive, supportive person and friend who, growing up, was voted the “most inspirational” on her soccer and softball teams.
About photography, she says: “If you do it well, you can represent a whole person.” She particularly enjoys portraiture and wedding photography for that reason. “That’s what makes me love weddings. I can move around and get that honest expression, and hopefully hand them over a photo that they don’t have of themselves.”
Dyer is all-things colorful, from her skiing style to her artwork – and it’s all connected.
“My art is pretty happy and I would hope my ski style would unleash that,” the kaleidophoskier says.
For information about Dyer’s illustrations and wedding photography, visit www.butteryellow.com.
CHECK OUT LYNSEY'S "SKIER GIRL!" VIDEO
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MEET LYNSEY ANN DYER – three Ys, no Is. The big-mountain skier is a mix between Punky Brewster and Rainbow Bright, but her nice-as-spice attitude has about zero to do with her skiing. The Junior Olympic downhill champion and Montana State University racer knows how to huck huge. Personal highlight: Sticking the 60-plus foot Cave double-drop at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort backcountry for the 2006 Teton Gravity Research film, “Anomaly.” She’s also filmed for Warren Miller, Wink Inc. Productions and Storm Show Studios. And she was the 2004 International Free Skiers Association North American Tour champion. Most people may not know that this Rossignol athlete’s face can be seen in life-size posters in tram docks across the French Alps, and the talented artist has designed a line of organic Rossi shirts for the 2008-09 season. She may be one of the most visible big-mountain skiers in the industry, but her humility and appreciation for life gave her the idea to create a nonprofit to help women reach their potential. — Vanessa Pierce
SHEJUMPS CO-FOUNDER LYNSEY DYER
First published in the Jackson Hole News&Guide, spring 2006. Photo by Price Chambers www.pricechambers.com.
Artist, freeskier knows how to fly high
By Vanessa Pierce
There’s a reason Lynsey Dyer lives her life up in the air.
She’s a Pisces, an admittingly flighty, artsy person. She’s a blend of floaty, mistakenly flaky, and frightfully funny. Simply, she’s colorful. But in Lynsey language, she prefers a made-up word to describe herself like kaleidophoskier. Translation: Pro freeskier and photographer/illustrator with a colorful personality. Huh?! Meet Lynsey Ann Dyer – three Ys, no Is.
The SheJumps co-founder said she loves being a photographer and illustrator, and creatively describes much of her work as “graphical.”
“I like making up words,” she says over an eclectic meal of corn on the cob dripping with pesto and extra salt at “cuz’s” house. You might know her cuz, pioneering women’s big-mountain skier and longtime Jackson resident A.J. Cargill. The next day, recalling how odd that night’s meal was as she sipped a “fluffy” Wild Tribe drink at Jackson’s Pearl Street Bagels, she asks: “Am I eclectic?”
You could definitely say Dyer is colorful. Her favorite word is “eclectic,” after all. She has lion-like locks, wears stylish clothes (from discount store, Ross, she likes to point out) and one of those “happy sticks” (a multi-colored thread wrapped around a strand of hair that she’s had for eight years). She’s an artist who doesn’t like to be confined to boundaries. She hates drawing in the lines. In fact, she can’t. One time a friend asked her to paint his bedroom, and she didn’t even begin before it was over.
“I couldn’t even tape in a straight line,” she says, “and even though it was for a friend, I was basically let go … Straight lines are pretty much the most awful thing for me. It’s always good to push the limits, draw outside the lines.”
Growing up in Sun Valley, Idaho, she had to follow a “line” while ski racing, which she quickly learned was not for her. She was good at it, though, and clinched a Junior Olympic downhill championship. But after spending three seasons racing for the Montana State University alpine team, she became sick of the calculation of skiing a line and told her friends she was off to be an extreme skier. They didn’t believe her until she won the 2004 International Free Skiers Association North American Tour.
Jibbing in Valle Nevado, Chile. Photo by Gabe Rogel Rogelphoto.com.
Exploring a mountain face fit her artsy self better. Give her room and she can splash a line down any slope. This year Dyer said she was psyched to “stomp” a 60-foot double cliff off the backside of Cody Peak as Teton Gravity Research filmed. You might recognize her stylish skiing in films by TGR, Warren Miller, Big Bang and Arris, and a soon-to-be show on NBC.
Art, like skiing, is one of her passions.
“You can get lost in your work,” she says about art, “where all of a sudden you are so in the moment and you feed off that. And that carries over to anything you get pleasure out of, those things that light you up.”
Once she graduated from MSU with a graphic design degree, she knew somehow, someway, she would make art into a career. Her style is graphical, bold and happy. She was tutored in graphical imagery in Italy – during her junior year in college – where she fell in love with woodblock printing, or the art of cutting out a design in a block of wood, placing ink on its surface and stamping it on paper. Since then she has tried to bring that element of texture and touch to her other art pursuits like photography.
Dyer hopes to inspire SheJumps women through her love of skiing, graphical illustration, and photography. Dyer has an intuitive ability to see and capture a portrait on her camera the moment someone’s “face lights up” when he or she talks about a friend, sister, brother, lover. It was never hard for her to see it, she said. It first happened in kindergarten when she won a drawing contest and complimented a classmate on his art, and his “face lit up.” She’s a natural “cheerleader,” an always positive, supportive person and friend who, growing up, was voted the “most inspirational” on her soccer and softball teams.
About photography, she says: “If you do it well, you can represent a whole person.” She particularly enjoys portraiture and wedding photography for that reason. “That’s what makes me love weddings. I can move around and get that honest expression, and hopefully hand them over a photo that they don’t have of themselves.”
Dyer is all-things colorful, from her skiing style to her artwork – and it’s all connected.
“My art is pretty happy and I would hope my ski style would unleash that,” the kaleidophoskier says.
For information about Dyer’s illustrations and wedding photography, visit www.butteryellow.com.
CHECK OUT LYNSEY'S "SKIER GIRL!" VIDEO
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