Ben Moxham

Boise, Idaho, USA | Active: 2008-present public ski record | Discipline: Powder Skiing, Backcountry Freestyle and Creative Park | Known for: Poor Boyz, Armada, Retallack, BC pillow edits, Peep The Game

Retallack Pillows Under Interior BC Snow

The snow around Retallack hung deep on the pillows, soft enough to swallow a landing and heavy enough to punish a late turn. Ben Moxham moved through that British Columbia terrain with the same looseness he once carried into park shoots: pop first, shape second, speed only when the pillow line opened. His best powder clips were never about charging straight down the biggest face. They were about finding the small takeoff hidden under a roll, then letting the landing disappear in white.

Boise Before Breckenridge

Moxham’s early biography is unusually clear for a skier whose later profile lives mostly through edits. In a Freeskier Q&A, he introduced himself as Ben Moxham, 21 years old, born and raised in Boise, Idaho. He said he started skiing at two and grew up at Bogus Basin and Tamarack Resort before moving to Breckenridge, Colorado. That route explains the mix in his skiing: Idaho snow instincts first, Colorado park access after.

Breckenridge mattered because it placed him inside a wider freestyle network during a period when ski movies, park shoots and summer camps could change a career quickly. Moxham was not coming through a World Cup slopestyle system. He was entering the late-2000s film-and-park economy, where a strong week at the right shoot could matter more than a formal ranking.

Schweitzer And The Poor Boyz Door

The first strong public breakthrough came through Poor Boyz Productions. In April 2008, Newschoolers covered the Poor Boyz Jib Jam at Schweitzer Mountain Resort, where Moxham skied with Matt Walker, Tim Russell, Colby Albino, Derek Spong, Anders Backe and others. The report described an early-morning channel-gap session, heli logistics, sunset jumps, floodlights and a closing ceremony at Thor’s Pizza.

At the end of that week, rookie Ben Moxham won the award for Most Impressive Skier of the 2008 Poor Boyz Jib Jam. That line is important because it fixes his arrival inside a real production environment. He was not only another name in a park edit. He had earned attention from a crew filming with some of the strongest park skiers of the era.

Windells Summers And The Hood Classroom

Moxham’s next public identity included coaching and summer skiing at Windells on Mount Hood. In the Freeskier interview, he said he had joined the Windells program, coming out during summers to coach, ski and get campers hyped. That detail makes sense for his era. Hood was not only a camp. It was a meeting point for skiers, filmers, young campers and pros working on tricks between winters.

Windells also gave him a role beyond personal footage. Coaching forces a skier to explain takeoffs, grabs, spins, edge pressure and landings to people still building their own vocabulary. Moxham’s skiing was loose, but the summer-camp environment required repetition and clarity. It helped place him between the older Poor Boyz park world and the younger generation coming through Hood.

Every Day Is A Saturday And The Poor Boyz Era

Poor Boyz’ 2009 film Every Day Is A Saturday listed Moxham in a large cast with names such as Tanner Hall, Simon Dumont, Jossi Wells, Dane Tudor, Tim Durtschi, Charles Gagnier, TJ Schiller, Sammy Carlson, Nick Martini, John Spriggs and others. That context matters more than a single clip. The film sat in a period when Poor Boyz still functioned as one of freeskiing’s main screens.

Moxham’s place in that world came from park and shoot value rather than contest medals. He had the style to fit beside skiers who were already better known, while still carrying an Idaho-Breckenridge identity of his own. The public record does not support calling him a contest star. It supports calling him a film-era skier who found a lane through hard work, sessions and production crews.

Retallack With Tanner Hall And The Armada Crew

Retallack: The Movie gave Moxham a more powder-specific stage. The official trailer listing named Tanner Hall, John Spriggs, Ben Moxham, Ian Provo, Neil Provo, Phil Casabon and Henrik Harlaut as athletes in the film. Directed by Josh Finbow for Inspired Media Concepts, the 2011 project placed Moxham inside one of Armada’s strongest backcountry-style chapters.

The cast explains the pressure. Tanner Hall brought star power and powder imagination. Phil Casabon and Henrik Harlaut carried style-heavy freestyle language. Ian and Neil Provo brought a different mountain eye. Moxham fit by turning pillow terrain, small takeoffs and soft landings into a natural extension of park skiing. Retallack helped move him away from being only a summer-camp or park-shoot name.

AR/BC And The Pillow Line Language

Armada’s British Columbia footage later sharpened that powder identity. The AR/BC material placed Moxham with Tanner Hall, Mike Hornbeck, Riley Leboe and Ian Provo around the Retallack Lodge zone. That crew was built for deep snow rather than a formal course, and Moxham’s role became easier to read: sled access, pillows, natural transitions, drops and freestyle body language dropped into storm snow.

The technique is different from classic big-mountain skiing. Moxham’s powder clips lean toward pillows, small booters, nose-heavy landings, quick slashes, low flips, corked movement, switch play, and the kind of soft-snow recovery that only works when a skier trusts the landing. He was not trying to out-spin the whole sport. He was making playful terrain look worth chasing.

Burnt To The Toast In Canadian Snow

Burnt to the Toast, published by Downdays in 2017, kept Moxham’s powder profile alive after his earlier Poor Boyz and Armada years. The short piece featured him with Cody Perin, Alex Dorszynski and Andreas Unterberger, with Downdays framing it around sledding, pillows and deep Canadian powder. That is a useful current-era marker because it shows the same identity continuing outside the original film boom.

The BC setting suited him because the terrain rewards instinct more than polish. Pillows stack irregularly, takeoffs collapse, landings disappear, and speed changes with every turn. A skier has to choose fast: pop, absorb, slash, drop, or reset. Moxham’s best powder footage lives in those decisions. It is not a clean contest run. It is a moving conversation with terrain that keeps changing under the skis.

Peep The Game With Woodsy And Jonah Williams

In 2022, Moxham appeared in Part 2 of Peep The Game, the first full-length movie from SLVSH. Downdays described the segment as a British Columbia booter piece featuring Ben Moxham, James “Woodsy” Woods and Jonah Williams, supported by Monster Energy. That pairing says a lot. Woodsy brings contest creativity and jump control. Jonah Williams brings a modern backcountry freestyle edge. Moxham brings the older powder-edit lineage.

The project placed him across generations. He was not the newest skier in the clip, but his presence made sense because the terrain spoke his language: BC snow, booters, soft landings and filmed tricks that do not need a bib to matter. Peep The Game gave a later proof point that Moxham’s skiing still belonged in a contemporary backcountry-freestyle context.

Armada, Rivers And The Current Shape Of His Life

Moxham’s current public profile has moved partly away from ski-industry noise. Teton Anglers describes him as co-founder and lead guide, born and raised in Boise, and a professional freeskier for over ten years before turning fly fishing into a full-time career. Western River Anglers also describes him as a professional skier for Armada, living in Stanley, Idaho during the off season and fishing the Salmon River and Silver Creek.

That current life does not erase the ski profile. It gives it a clean ending. Moxham’s story has always been tied to mountains and rivers: Boise, Bogus Basin, Tamarack, Breckenridge, Hood, Schweitzer, Retallack, British Columbia, Jackson, Stanley. The same patience needed to read a pillow line appears in a different form on water: waiting, watching texture, moving only when the opening is real.

The Accurate Place For Moxham Now

Ben Moxham belongs at 3/5. He does not have the medals, Olympic record or dominant contest résumé required for a higher competition rating. His importance comes from a different lane: Poor Boyz Jib Jam, Every Day Is A Saturday, Windells coaching, Armada projects, Retallack: The Movie, AR/BC, Burnt to the Toast, Peep The Game and a long powder-ski identity rooted in Idaho and British Columbia.

The page should not inflate him into a global contest legend. His value for skipowd.tv is cultural and visual: a skier from Boise who moved through park shoots, summer camps, film crews, Armada powder projects and BC pillow terrain, then carried that mountain life into guiding rivers. The confirmed story is specific enough, and that specificity is the reason the page works.