Erica Kutz is a freelance graphic designer, art director, and producer as Mountainmind. She represents outdoor brands as an ambassador including Kona Bike and Arc'teryx. She tells us about snowboarding and splitboarding in the North Cascades.

Erica talks about growing up snowboarding and skiing, and more recently split boarding. She explains how she approaches testing the slopes before starting a day on the back country slopes. Erica mentions areas off Highway 20 as favorite areas to go snowboarding.

Erica told us about going to Revelstoke's Split Fest to visit the Powder Highway as her most amazing week of snowboarding. She goes on to give us a history lesson on split boarding.

On the graphic design side of her career, Erica talked about working for various companies such as Zoomies and Microsoft.

Places:

• Maryhill
• Alpental
• Snoqualmie Pass
• Crystal Mountain