Versatility Is Her Middle Name—Maggie Voisin on Her Breakout Performance in TGR's 'Pressure Drop'

Maggie Voisin was in the grocery store when her childhood best friend and fellow professional skier, Parkin Costain texted her.

“You should come,” he wrote alongside a picture of a tasty backcountry zone in the Wyoming backcountry that he was planning to ski the next day.

Teton Gravity Research (TGR) was shooting for 2023’s Legend Has It, and even though she was friends with Costain, Voisin wasn’t sure if she could just show up to a TGR shoot without an official invitation.

“It was like 4:45 PM, and I said to Parkin, ‘You have to make sure it’s okay with the crew first’, but the second he said that, I mean, I literally went home from the grocery store, packed up my sled, packed up all of my stuff, and started driving to Wyoming,” Voisin told POWDER during a phone interview.

“I got there at midnight. There was a bed on the floor for me. I woke up the next morning, started skiing lines, and pushing. The day turned into me staying for a couple more days, and then TGR invited me to film in Alaska the day after we wrapped in Wyoming,” she explained.

The invite was a launching point for the next phase of Voisin’s career. “It was really cool to have TGR and that entire crew believe in my skiing and take a chance on a park skier,” she said with a true sense of gratitude. “And then to win Standout Female Skier of the Year from IF3 that year was, like, whoa. It was an eye-opener.”

Now in her third annual film with TGR, Voisin continues to impress fans of big mountain and freeride skiing. In 2025’s Pressure Drop, she demonstrates her keen versatility on two planks across multiple disciplines.

From charging down Alaskan spines with speed and precision to throwing floaty park tricks in front of the Grand Tetons, she isn’t just another park skier turned backcountry adventurer.

Maggie Voisin is one of the best skiers on the planet, and her multiple segments in Teton Gravity Research’s Pressure Drop are all the proof needed.

Keep reading for more from our exclusive interview with Maggie Voisin about Pressure Drop. Click here to see Pressure Drop in a theater near you.

Transitions

Filming in Alaska is a numbers game. Crews spend weeks waiting in sleepy fishing villages for the weather, sun, and snow conditions to align.

In the case of Maggie Voisin and TGR’s 2025 trip to Valdez, Alaska, the shoot spanned four weeks. Of those 28 days, Voisin remembers skiing four days.

“It drove me mad. We didn’t have a resort close by to go ski. I learned this year how wild it is that you can sit for 12 days and then all of a sudden you’re plopped on a line.”

The four-week trip produced some of the best segments of the film, but according to Voisin, the days she actually skied were few and far between. Mother Nature, and Alaska for that matter, do not bend their wills to the desires of skiers—even the ones with fancy cameras. Maggie Voisin learned that lesson the hard way. 

The hurry up and wait vibe of filming in Alaska has been one of the most challenging aspects, according to Voisin. “The repetition compared to competitive skiing is just so different. I didn’t realize how used to a routine I was until I stepped away. Back then, if I didn’t get a trick perfectly, I would practice it 10 to 20 times.”

Voisin spent a few days skiing in Alaska for the Natural Selection Tour before arriving in Valdez for TGR, but stacking reps on big Alaskan faces isn’t always possible. No matter how many reps a skier does or doesn’t get, when the conditions align, it’s go time for a film like Pressure Drop.

As a resident of Whitefish, Montana with a budding second career in commentating live ski competitions like the X Games and Kings & Queens of Corbet’s Couloir, I wondered how Voisin had time to prepare for such consequential lines.

While I hoped for a groundbreaking secret sauce or a mythical technique, Voisin’s ace in the hole is how she approaches every day spent on snow.

“I had to wrap my head around skiing in the training sense. I don’t want to always think of skiing as training, but in the lead-up to filming with TGR, I treated every moment on skis as an opportunity to feel more comfortable and confident,” she explained. “When I’m at a resort, I think, ‘How can I charge something in variable snow or make the most of where I’m at?’”

Charge she certainly did in Pressure Drop.

The Alaskan Spin Cycle

Voisin’s Valdez segment is one of three cameos she claims in Pressure Drop, and it stands out thanks to her big mountain style, confidence, and experience. Three years of skiing in Alaska isn’t a ton compared to some of her co-stars, but it’s evident that the previous two years have quickly molded her into a bona fide big mountain boss.

In one scene of Pressure Drop, Voisin descends a steep powdery face with speed and precision. Each turn arcs perfectly as she navigates hero powder. To avoid a large cliff band and her sluff chasing from behind, Voisin cuts perpendicular to the face and traverses across multiple near-vertical spines at nearly the same speed. Without hesitation, she then arcs a perfect left-hand turn into the next face below. She caps off the impressive line with two straight airs over crevasses.

It’s easy to understand how experience benefits a skier’s abilities, but Voisin’s passionate words about the rush of Alaskan heli skiing explain her success. Passion fuels success, after all.

“Alaska is exhilarating in all of the ways,” she said. “Mentally, physically, emotionally. I always like to explain it like this—Alaska is a cycle of emotions. You get in the helicopter and find a zone. We usually plop down at the bottom and take a look. Then you get the nervous butterflies if a line begins to look good. Then, the bird fires up, and you’re like, ‘Oh my gosh, this is happening. This is real.”

Voisin, only 26 years old, explains the rest of the experience with a relatable level of excitement. “It’s like, holy smokes. This is so real. The heli lands, you hop out, and there’s a ton of loud noise. The heli flies away, and then it’s pure bliss, but you have to hurry up and get your skis on. Sometimes, you’re on top of a line and you’re like, ‘Why am I doing this?’. Then you get to the bottom and you say, ‘Get me back up there now.’ That’s heli skiing in Alaska.”

Considering her incredible performance in Pressure Drop, which has earned a nomination for Standout Skier of the Year by iF3, we’re confident that many exhilarating heli drops are in Voisin’s future.

We sure hope so, at least.

Check back in later this Fall for a second part to this exclusive interview with Maggie Voisin.

Watch: Maggie Voisin, Valdez, AK Segment, Pressure Drop

Pressure Drop Tour

Pressure Drop is showing at theaters across the globe. Click here to get a ticket and see Maggie Voisin alongside a stacked list of skiers and snowboarders.

Need further convincing? Voisin offered a quote for POWDER readers: “If you love skiing and want to see some crazy action, laugh, and learn something about the history of TGR, check it out. It’s such a cool film.”

Stay tuned here at POWDER for more behind-the-scenes stories about Teton Gravity Research’s Pressure Drop in the coming weeks.

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