Growing up in Connecticut, Neil found his passion for snowboarding on the icy slopes of Ski Sundown - a small hill with a vertical drop of 625ft! When his pop moved west to Utah in '99, Neil and his brothers followed soon after. A totally new world was revealed, filled with endless amounts of real snow and huge mountains to explore. A rare commodity back east! Neil discovered splitboarding out of necessity, to follow his older bro on skis and to access the untracked snow beyond resort boundaries. When that first snowboard was cut in half, his perspective of what was possible in the mountains was forever changed. For the past 15 years, Neil has been climbing up the skin track in search of that perfect pow turn.