Leah Evans- Founder of Girls Day Out
Leahs’ recent accomplishments include a First Place finish at the 2011 Canadian Freeski Championships in Revelstoke (a Freeski World Tour event), filming around the world with Ride Guide TV, writing for SKIER magazine, speaking at various events, shooting with top photographers in the industry, and winning both the 2010 Canadian Freeski Open and 2010 Wrangle the Chute events. What you will quickly learn about Leah however is that competitions and filming trips are just the fun side of a career that finds true meaning in building positive and transformative action all around her.
Leah believes that her ski successes have put her in a fortunate position to create effective and lasting change in her community. “As professional skiers, we have a great opportunity to lead change, an opportunity that is frequently ignored”. As a role model in the freeskiing community, Leah’s main projects revolve around generating further recognition of the female freeski community and providing a platform of support for young female athletes.
Girls Day Out is a project that couples these two goals. As the project’s founder, Leah Evans created the first GDO event in 2006, bringing women of all ages and skill-levels together for a weekend of skiing. From its inception, the event aims to encourage and strengthen female skiers and to motivate women as confident members of the ski community. “I wanted to create an event where people didn’t have any extra stigma attached to their name, just a safe space for women to come together and share their passion for skiing.”
LINKS:
Blog, www.leah-evans.com
Great Canadian Heli Skiing Video, Jordan Manley production