Some background on the founder of "Save Our Snow"

Saving Our Snow: Champion Skier And Climate Change Activist Alison Gannett - Blue Ridge Outdoors Magazine

Unlike most professional athletes, Alison Gannett was an environmentalist before she became a world champion freeskier. Gannett has been researching global warming ever since she graduated from the University of Vermont with an environmental science degree 20 years ago. In the 90s she provided the action shots in Warren Miller films and won multiple World Cup Freeskiing Titles. She has since formed three nonprofits to fight climate change, including the Save Our Snow Foundation and the Office for Resource Efficiency, which offers free consultation for reducing carbon emissions in Colorado’s Gunnison Valley. A trainer for Al Gore’s Climate Project, Gannett also walks the talk. She lives in a straw bale house she built in Crested Butte, and on her Global Cooling tours, she drives around in the world’s first solar-powered SUV that gets over 100 miles per gallon.

The Save OUR Snow Foundation

The SOS Foundation has documented global warming affecting our snow and water with expeditions to Bolivia, Argentina, South Africa, Pakistan, Bhutan, India, The US, Canada, Switzerland, and France.