Teton Gravity Research

Today, I sit down with photographer, writer, and action sports storyteller Izzy Lidsky.

From discovering photography in a high school darkroom to becoming a staff writer for Powder Magazine and working with brands like Red Bull, Teton Gravity Research, and Free Skier Magazine, Izzy has built a career documenting the people, places, and moments that make outdoor culture so compelling.

In this conversation, we explore photography, skiing, storytelling, creativity, and what it takes to turn a passion for the outdoors into a meaningful creative career.

This is a conversation about adventure, authenticity, and following the things that make you feel alive.

yeah

so you also are a writer and that is I would say from what I heard your full-time thing

yeah um again kind of an accident uh I never like really sought out to be a writer I've always enjoyed it both my parents are writers um And my first job not in fine art out of college was working as an editorial intern for Teton Gravity Research.

So I was doing something adjacent to what I do now, which is just like writing for the TGR website.

I, I, I do love that feeling.

It ties right in with, like, the premieres of the Matchstick ski movie and the Teton Gravity Research ski film, and the Warren Miller ski film, and so much of my teen years and 20s was built on living on that excitement, even when I couldn't necessarily go skiing, 'cause I was in school in, like, Washington, DC or whatever.

Um, so I, I'm excited to see it, and I, I hope, I hope the kids are all frothing just as hard as I did.

Yeah, totally.

And we looked at that because it's very intriguing.

The volume of Teton Gravity Research has 4 million viewers.

We quickly realized that we didn't need imagery of 20-year-olds hucking wind lips, you know, or skiing death-defying shoots.

It would just terrify our customers.

schedule, you know.

On tetongravity.com. Look for the one in Morristown, New Jersey.

Everybody should go.

So

He was walking the Continental Divide Trail when he reached the Colorado-Wyoming line.

He looked south at the ridge lines running down into Colorado and he told Teton Gravity Research he really wished there was a full-length trail that was, in his words, "More or less nonstop Colorado." There wasn't one, so he built one.

[laughs] Wow.

He spent most of last year sitting with digital maps plotting places he loved, stitched them all together.