We're saved!: California snowboarder Jeremy Jones, who's taken unnecessary long-haul fossil-fueled trips all around the world, takes another unnecessary fossil-fueled trip to DC to be honored for his alleged efforts to prevent CO2-induced bad weather

White House Honors Jeremy Jones as a Champion of Change - The Ski Channel

Climate change of winter communities has officially been addressed in the White House with the help of snowboard legend, film maker and extreme environmental activist Jeremy Jones, who was recognized as a ‘Champion of Change’ by President Barack Obama at the White House on Thursday.

Jeremy Jones (freerider) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

After racing for many years Jones began to concentrate on big mountain riding, mainly in his favourite place to ride, Alaska.
...Jeremy regularly takes part in the Swatch O'Neill Big Mountain Pro tour. When he is not on the road he lives in Truckee, CA, with his wife Tiffany, a real estate agent in the Lake Tahoe area, and his daughter, both with whom he rides with at his home resort of Squaw Valley.

In 2007 Jones founded Protect Our Winters (POW), a non-profit organization dedicated to reversing the global warming crisis by uniting the winter sports community and focusing its collective efforts towards reversing the damage done by climate change. As a testament to Jones' commitment to the environment, he has recently decided to forego the use of helicopters and lifts, opting instead to hike as his sole means of transportation on the slopes.

Jeremy Jones, 2013 Adventurers of the Year - National Geographic

“There is no longer anywhere in the world that I consider too hard to get to,” says big-mountain snowboarder Jeremy Jones.
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The wildest mountains were fair game, so he picked four of the remotest locations he could find—Japan’s Alps, Austria’s Karwendelgebirge Range, the Norwegian archipelago Svalbard just 600 miles from the North Pole, and Alaska’s Wrangell-St. Elias—and went to work.