Cole Gibson

East Coast / United States | Active: 2013-present public video record | Known for: HG Skis films, The Bunch projects, East Coast street skiing, Phil Casabon’s Activity | Current: Public archive centered on street, crew and guest-part footage

Loon With A Fisheye Under The Chair

The Seven Brothers chair at Loon moved slowly above spring park traffic, cold metal flashing below and a fisheye lens pointed toward the last features. Cole Gibson crossed the hill with Liam McKinley nearby, then pressed a lip at the edge of the run, arms loose as the skis came back to forward. That short scene, reported during a Newschoolers Gathering recap, says a lot about Gibson’s place in freeskiing. His profile does not come from podium lists. It comes from East Coast park laps, HG Skis street parts, Tall T-linked crews, The Bunch appearances and a kind of skiing that turns small terrain into personality.

HG Skis Found Him On An Urban Trip

One of the clearest early markers came through HG Skis. A 2013 Newschoolers video post announced “HG Skis Presents: Cole Gibson,” explaining that the brand brought him on an urban trip during the previous season and quickly decided he fit the crew. The same post said he spent a month at Mt. Hood testing prototypes for a new ski and pointed toward a full segment in “Aurora,” the HG team movie. That context matters because Gibson was not introduced as a contest skier. He entered the public freeski record through street footage, summer park testing, team travel and a small hardgoods brand built around riders rather than a federation pipeline.

Aurora, Burlington And The East Coast Lens

HG Skis’ early film world was tied closely to Burlington, Vermont and the wider Northeast scene. Public film listings around “Aurora” place Gibson with riders such as Connor Gaeta, James Amodeo, Hunter Tyrrell and Alex Hackel, a group built around park, rail and street skiing rather than traditional alpine competition. The locations and crew language matter. East Coast skiing often gives riders firm snow, short hills, awkward run-ins, night sessions and hand-built features. For Gibson, that environment gave his clips a specific texture: low-speed creativity, lip tricks, rail pressure, parking-lot energy and a willingness to make imperfect terrain carry the edit.

Children Of The Guan And Full Street Weight

FREESKIER’s coverage of “Children of the Guan” made the street direction explicit. The 2015 HG Skis film featured Christian Franchino, Connor Gaeta, Hunter Tyrrell, Cole Gibson and Jamie Amodeo, and was described as a street-heavy project filmed across the East Coast. A separate FREESKIER trailer post called it an all-urban film, with Burlington’s Arts Riot listed for the premiere. That project is one of Gibson’s strongest verified anchors. It places him inside a crew willing to deal with concrete, rails, stairs, crashes, bad snow and difficult approaches, where the value of a clip depends on commitment as much as trick vocabulary.

Eat The Guts And The HG Continuation

HG Skis continued that lane with “Eat The Guts,” a two-year video presented with Tall T Productions. Tall T and Forecast listings name Gibson in a cast with Alex Hackel, Connor Gaeta, Keegan Kilbride, Jamie Amodeo, Christian Franchino, Jeremie Veilleux and Hunter Tyrrell. The project premiered across ski-film events including Annecy, Denver, Burlington and IF3 Montreal. The production credits are useful because they show the network around him: Liam McKinley, John Hayes, Charles Stemen, the riders, HG Skis and Tall T. Gibson’s role sits inside that collaborative scene, where filming, driving, building, crashing and editing are almost as central as the skiing itself.

The Bunch Opened The Map Wider

Gibson’s archive also crosses into The Bunch, the Swedish-led crew that helped shift ski films toward looser structure, odd feature use and crew-first atmosphere. Forecast’s trailer listing for “Finito” names him among skiers including Magnus Granér, Tobias Sedlacek, Pär Hägglund, Lucas Stål Madison, Jens Nilsson, Maximilliam Smith, Sakarias Majander, Douglas Källsbo, Leo Björklund, Jeremie Veilleux, Erik Pousette and Liam Downey. The Bunch’s Vimeo listing frames “Finito” as the conclusion of a trilogy, with locations stretching from Moscow to Norwegian fjords. Gibson’s presence in that orbit matters because The Bunch rewarded skiers who could treat basic features in strange ways, not only riders chasing the largest technical trick.

Salt Lake Friends And Camera Work

The Bunch-related “Me, and My Friends” adds a smaller but revealing detail. Newschoolers lists the edit as showing late December to early January with Tobias Sedlacek, Cole Gibson and Jeremy Veilleux, filmed by Cole Gibson and Liam McKinley, edited by Sedlacek, and located in Salt Lake City. That credit matters because Gibson was not only a body in front of the camera. Like many skiers in his circle, he also helped make the footage exist. Street and crew skiing often works that way: one rider hits the spot, another films, someone shovels, someone edits, and the final clip carries all of those roles together.

Activity Beside B-Dog, Hornbeck And Harlaut

A later and more visible marker came through Phil Casabon’s “Activity.” iF3 lists the 2023 Armada production with athletes Phil Casabon, Henrik Harlaut, Quinn Wolferman, Daniel Bacher, Kim Boberg, Brady Perron, Liam Downey, Mike Hornbeck and Cole Gibson. Downdays described the project as moving from Kimbo Sessions to Vermont and then to Shawinigan, with Casabon and peers filmed by Brady Perron and Raph Sévigny. Gibson’s inclusion there connects him to a specific style lineage. Casabon, Hornbeck and Harlaut are not simply big-name skiers; they represent a school of freeskiing where body shape, rhythm, improvisation and feature interpretation count as much as formal difficulty.

How Gibson Uses Small Features

The recurring language around Gibson is not World Cup slopestyle, halfpipe amplitude or big-air scoring. It is street, East Coast, HG Skis, Tall T, The Bunch, Activity, rails, lips, presses, filming and friends. Technically, that points toward a skier comfortable with small transitions, nose and tail pressure, rail slides, low-speed approaches, awkward run-ins, lip tricks, flat landings and fast adjustments when a spot is barely working. His skiing is best understood through terrain reading. A ledge can become a takeoff, a park lip can become a press, a rail can be hit for shape rather than spin count, and a bad snowbank can still produce a usable clip.

The Archive That Defines Him Now

Cole Gibson’s verified public record remains film-based and scattered across crew projects, not centralized in an official athlete profile. That limits the available biographical detail, but it also clarifies his place. He belongs to the American street and creative freeski archive: HG Skis, Burlington premieres, East Coast rails, Mt. Hood summers, The Bunch crossovers, Tall T-linked edits and “Activity” with Phil Casabon’s circle. His profile is not a broad mainstream one. It is a specific underground ski-video profile, valuable because it documents the scene where small brands, hard spots, loose crews and individual style kept freeskiing strange, social and visually alive.