Paul Basagoitia is a professional freeride mountain biker from Minden, NV who won the first ever Crankworx slopestyle event in 2004. He was instrumental in the growth of the freeride mountain bike scene in the 2000s, taking tricks previously only seen in BMX into the world of mountain biking. He competed in his first BMX races at age six and became BMX World Champion in his age group at age ten. Fellow professional mountain biker and friend, Cam Zink, convinced him to switch from BMX to mountain biking as a teenager, and, in 2004, he won the first Crankworx slopestyle event at age 17 without his own mountain bike or sponsors. This launched a professional mountain biking career that would take him all around the world, scoring numerous international wins. Paul was first rider to land a 720 on a mountain bike and the first to do a double backflip on natural terrain. In 2015, a crash in the finals of Red Bull Rampage put an abrupt end to his career. He had fractured his T12 vertebra and damaged his spinal cord – which left him paralyzed from the waist down. He decided to fight against this prognosis, in part motivated by his supporters from around the world and financial support from the mountain biking community. After several months of physiotherapy, he was training at home for up to ten hours a day, eventually getting up from the wheelchair on his own, driving a car again, and taking the first steps without crutches. While he still walks with a stick, he is back on the bike again, though an e-bike. He stars in a documentary about this journey in the film "Any One of Us". He married his long-time girlfriend, Nichole Munk, who saw him through his recovery.

Absinthe Films is a snowboarding film producer out of Reno, Nevada, US. A chance meeting at a San Diego screening in 1999, brought together Patrick 'Brusti' Armbruster (Onboard Magazine senior photographer) and Justin Hostynek (established film-maker and Snowboarder Magazine senior photographer). The following winter they collaborated on a 'European rider' based film, titled 'Tribal'. Expanding the scope of their projects to include the best riders from both Europe and North America they would go on together to establish Absinthe Films as a film production company.

Michael "Mike" Jon Widger was a football linebacker for the Montreal Alouettes and Ottawa Rough Riders of the Canadian Football League (CFL) from 1970 to 1978. He was born on August 21, 1948 in Pennsville, NJ. An All-American at Virginia Tech in the late 1960s, he was a CFL All-Star four times and was a part of two Grey Cup winning victories for the Alouettes. He was also selected six times for the East All-Stars (1970, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975 and 1977). Widger was also the Montreal nominee for Outstanding Defensive Player in 1974, the first year for the award. He was a nominee for the TSN Top 50 CFL Players list in 2006. Mike died on March 3, 2016, aged 67, in Salem, NJ.

Jamie Kurlander is an American retired alpine ski racer. She was born in McAfee, NJ on November 13, 1957 and grew up in Vernon, NJ. She raced and won both ski races in the Subaru Pro Series in Whistler in 1981. She was active as a ski racer from the mid-1970s to mid-1980s.

Coppertone is the brand name for an American sunscreen, founded in 1944. Coppertone is headquartered in Whippany, New Jersey The original product was created by pharmacist Benjamin Green to darken tans. The product line has been expanded to include many skin care products, predominantly sunscreens.

Avis is a car rental company founded in Michigan in 1946. It is now based in New Jersey.

Don Horstman lived in North Carolina in the 1980s.

Anthony Campolio is a chef. He appears to have worked in Whistler before moving back to the US to pursue his career.

Robert W. Gray is a fire ecologist at R. W. Gray Consulting Ltd., his own consulting company. He worked seasonally in the USDA Forest Service in Lolo National Forest, Montana as a forest technician from 1983 to 1985. In 1991, he graduated from the University of Montana with a Bachelor of Science degree in forest ecology and fire ecology. From 1990 to 1992, he continued his work as a forest technician with the USDA Forest Service in the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie and Olympic National Forests. From 1993 to 1995, he worked as a fire ecologist with the San Carlos Apache Tribe in San Carlos, Arizona. Since 1996, he has lived in Chilliwach, where he works as a fire ecologist and consultant for his own company, R. W. Gray Consulting Ltd.. He is a member of the board of directors for the Association of Fire Ecology. His consulting clients include: the US Forest Service, Parks Canada, The World Bank, State of Oregon, State of Washington, ?aq’am and Tsilhqot’in First Nation, BC Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations, BC Ministry of Environment, University of Washington, University of Idaho, University of British Columbia, several rural BC communities (Cranbrook, Kimberley, Vernon), and the BC forest industry.