Take a trip down memory lane with Sage Cattabriga-Alosa on getting his first POWDER cover.
Apparently, legendary freerider Sage Cattabriga-Alosa got the Summer of Ski Nostalgia memo, and has been sharing the stories behind some of the iconic photos hanging in his garage.
Amongst images from his favorite film trips, lines, and other memorabilia from Cattabriga-Alosa's 20 year career is his first ever magazine cover shot.
You can hear Sage tell the story below and keep reading for more.
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It just so happens that Cattabriga-Alosa's first mag cover was for POWDER Magazine (November, 2024). It featured a jaw-dropping photo shot on a trip with Teton Gravity Research for the film Soul Purpose (2003).
The trip had taken Cattabriga-Alosa to Tolsequa, British Columbia, a tiny town east of Juneau, Alaska, but just over the Canadian border. Jeremy Nobis, Jeremy Jones, and Victoria Jealouse were also on the trip and Cattabriga Alosa remembers being psyched to ski with a crowd that inspired him so much, and to learn from some of the best big mountain skiers around.
The sun was higher in the sky that time of year, which meant they were looking to ski mostly north and northeast facing lines in the early morning and late afternoon to find the best snow. This also meant that midday, they had time to kill and could ski other lines on the glacier.
Photo: Adam Clark/POWDER
While skiing, they stumbled across a crevasse and Cattabriga-Alosa had the idea to build a jump over the crevasse. Cattabriga-Alosa recalls that although each athlete keeps a bit of their focus on getting shots of themselves for the film, there's a level of camaraderie amongst athletes on film trips, and building this crevasse jump together was a perfect example of it.
Cattabriga-Alosa hit the jump and says he 'probably did a 360,' joking that he built a career on the trick. Ski photographer Adam Clark shot the photo from the seat of a helicopter, landing the both of them the cover image.
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Sage Cattabriga-Alosa Recalls The Exciting Story Behind His First POWDER Cover first appeared on Powder on Jul 30, 2025
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