Big Sky Youth Empowerment and the Billy Poole Foundation take the stage in Big Sky for two days of good times! Check out the cast and crew:
A group of 17 athletes from the Cottonwood Canyons made the trek from the high dessert to the high state of Montana for two days of shredding, coaching, and just goofing around with rad kids from BYEP. So the ultimate thing that brought us all to Montana to gang up with BYEP is this woman right here:
she had a phenomenal son named Billy Poole. When Billy passed away over a year ago, this wonderful woman (Phyllis Erck) and her friends, family, and Billy’s mountain families all over the world put together a foundation in his name… The Billy Poole Foundation is designed to get kids on the snow— regardless of backgrounds, financial situations, and or other circumstances that would disable kids from getting out and skiing or snowboarding— Phyllis is shown here talking about Billy and how he had to in-fact work his butt off for every ounce of ski time that he had as a kid, how he achieved his dreams… and then how he lived them until the day he died. 
AND … this guy would be the other reason that we were all out there. Mr. Drew Stoecklein organized the Utah end of things— SOOOOOooooooooo>>>>
So put on your sunscreen :
brush up on your technique:
work out your steeze:
and your style:
then head to the pipe:
-cause that’s where the BYEP kids and the Billy Poole Foundation pro-shredders will be :)
Nice job of documenting this great event. I’ve got some pictures and video that I need to get up on the Billy Poole Memorial Fund website too.
Thanks for coming and for taking pictures and for the follow-through of publishing them on the internet.
Billy would love this effort for this great group of youngsters.
hey rachael its kevin hoehn. i am one of those kids from byep you may remember me because you signed my chest at big sky i think these photos are sweet thanx for commin to big sky to ski with byep it was sick i hope you can come again this year
Hey!! I’m in BYEP, I got to shred with you and Drew and Casey and it was my dream. I really hope you know how much you truly inspired us kids, it’s what we need, cause most of us don’t have that or even the support we deserve. You gave that to us and you all made us laugh. Your welcome to come back whenever you want. And I want to thank you for making my dreams come true.