These high school sweethearts connected over a shared passion for snowboarding and the mountains. They’ve built their lives around that love and continue to make life choices, like living in a remote mountain cabin in Utah, that fuel that commitment. Cindi is a mountain guide, freelance writer, and yoga instructor. Zach is a cat operator, farmer, and sawyer. Together they have compiled over a decade of experience in the backcountry and have achieved certifications in avalanche training, journalism, and wilderness first responder. They have been riding professionally for most of that time and their love for exploring mountains has taken them all over the Rockies and into remote regions of Alaska. During the heart of winter, they reside in the central Wasatch in a snowbound backcountry cabin that they built together by hand. 

When we became best friends as teenagers, we dreamed of living in the wilderness. In our twenties, we literally built our dream together. With the help of friends and family, we constructed a ski-in / ski-out chalet at 8,400’—our year-round house, accessible only by boards or snow machines in the winter.
We are driven by a love for splitboarding, whether near our backcountry home in Utah or deep into big mountains across North America. We take great pride in defying stigmas and we intend to inspire others to wield their passions and their partnerships beyond convention.

​With Intent to Inspire,  

Zach & Cindi
Now you will feel no rain, for each of you will be shelter for the other.
Now you will feel no cold, for each of you will be warmth for the other.
Now there will be no loneliness, for each of you will will be a companion to the other.
Now you are two persons, but there is only one life before you.
May beauty surround you both in the journey ahead and through all the years.
May happiness be your companion and your days together be good and long upon the earth.