Telluride, Colorado, with its steeps, backcountry access, and lack of a halfpipe, is better known for breeding mountaineers than park skiers. But for 22-year-old Gus Kenworthy, who snagged the third spot on the men’s Olympic slopestyle ski team for the USA—and was just a few points away from a spot on the halfpipe team, too—growing up in that southern Colorado hub of big-mountain skiing has made him creative, unafraid, and ready to step up to Sochi.
Kenworthy is, by the numbers, the most well-rounded freeskier on the planet. He’s won … More