If we want authenticity, we have to initiate it. Self-discovery takes us to the wildest places on earth

It was just on a whole other level, getting to experience and ride that terrain. We spent a fair amount of time in the Hakuba Valley.

Over the past six years, my girlfriend and I live on our boat two or three months a year. It's just one of our seasonal homes at this point.

When I finally got to go ride the mountains in Japan, it blew my mind.

I think it mostly comes down to trying to align with people who are down with a mission and will bring optimism.

Being out on the ocean seems like a different world to being in the mountains and the backcountry, but there is also a lot of symmetry. They each have their own biorhythms from a motherly embrace to tempestuous wrath. What I love about being out in nature is that you are at the mercy of your own decision making.

We'll never know our full potential unless we push ourselves to find it.