Corbet's Couloir Champion Joins Blizzard Tecnica Ski Team

Blizzard Tecnica has scooped up another one of skiing’s most talented freeriders for their athlete team. Wasatch-based skier and 2025 King of Corbet’s Couloir, Tim McChesney, is the newest addition.

McChesney, who grew up skiing Montana’s Bridger Bowl, had never actually been on a pair of Blizzards before last December. The skier was previously sponsored by Faction, but parted ways with the brand at the end of last year. Generally speaking, the two brands have a pretty different approach to skis, and McChesney hadn’t previously found a pair of Blizzards that really suited his style. 

That is, until Blizzard released the Canvas, a lineup of freeride skis designed by Blizzard freeride athletes like Connery Lundin, Kaz Sosnkowski, Piper Kunst, Zeb Schreiber, and the rest of their freeride team. The Canvas sought to break Blizzard’s previous mold of stiff, hard-charging performance skis and add something more playful and freeride-focused to the line. It was the level of collaboration with their athletes on product design that drew McChesney to the team. 

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The Canvas, specifically the Canvas 108, caught McChesney’s eye after a friend introduced him to it. It didn’t take him long to get comfortable on the ski, which is a twin-tip with a nice amount of underfoot camber and a springy poplar and paulownia wood core. “It’s playful, lightweight, poppy, but still supportive, and it floats really well. It’s been perfect for how I like to ski in the backcountry,” he said. He’s also been rocking the new Zero G Decoy boot, another result of heavy athlete input.

McChesney, who was already known for bringing a playful yet powerful style to the backcountry (dare we say, a la Sean Pettit in 2011?), made a splash last season when he took the crown at Jackson Hole‘s Kings and Queens of Corbet’s competition in his first year competing. McChesney was the first athlete of the day to drop in and stomped a double cork 1080 off the top of the couloir and a super-clean switch 1080 off the jump at the bottom. 

While McChesney is not on the roster for Kings and Queens this year, he’s still got a busy winter on the new sticks. He’s got several film trips in the works as well as a visit to the Blizzard factory in Mittersill, Austria.

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