Forster Meeks

Salt Lake City, Utah / Mt. Hood, Oregon | Active public archive: 2010s-present | Known for: ON3P street films, Crushin’ Cans pro topsheet, Hood Crew roots, Minnesota street parts | Discipline: street skiing, park skiing, creative jib

Minnesota Rails Before The Snow Went Grey

The rail in Minnesota sat above a shoveled white ribbon, trees bare behind the stairs and the landing already turning grey from traffic. Forster Meeks came in with the calm of a skier used to rough speed: flat skis, low shoulders, no extra motion before the metal.

That is where his skiing reads best. Meeks is not a World Cup slopestyle profile and not a medal-table athlete. His name belongs to street skiing, Hood summers, Utah winters, ON3P crews and a long archive of clips where style is measured by pressure, patience, weird feature choice and the willingness to keep filming when the spot looks barely worth trying.

Mt. Hood Changed The Route At Sixteen

Newschoolers’ early profile on Meeks gives the first strong origin point. At sixteen, he took a trip to Mount Hood and spent three months skiing nearly every day. During that period he met Joey Van Der Meer, Michael Briggs and Danny “Freed” Schwartz of The Hood Crew, a connection that pushed him toward the ski-bum and film-crew life that later defined him.

The same profile says he moved to Salt Lake City in 2011. That move matters because Salt Lake gives a street skier winter snow, city rails, Brighton and Park City access, cheap-session mythology and enough skiers to keep ideas moving. Hood gave him the summer identity. Utah gave him the winter streets.

The Hood Crew Habit Stayed In The Style

Meeks is repeatedly described through Hood Crew language because the influence never really disappears. The Hood scene rewarded slush timing, ugly rails, playful risk, strange skis, friends filming friends and tricks that looked better when they were not too polished. That is the base underneath his later ON3P work.

His skiing has always carried that loose but physical tone. A trick can look casual even when the setup is harsh. A wide ski can be used on rails. A line can include a heavy impact and still feel relaxed. That balance is why his clips are easy to recognize even before a caption names him.

Stain And The Salt Lake Street Circle

Stain, released in 2018, gives one of the strongest crew-film markers before the later ON3P run. The video featured Andy Partridge, Ian King, Dylan Sondrup, Jake Mageau, Forster Meeks, Paddy Flanagan, Thomas Woodley, Chase Mohrman and Christian Franchino. Oliver Hoblitzelle filmed it and edited it with Sanch.

The roster places Meeks inside a strong Salt Lake and street-skiing orbit. Mageau, Mohrman and Partridge all bring their own forms of rail logic, while Meeks adds a heavier, stranger kind of movement. Stain sits in the period when independent street films still moved through Newschoolers links, premieres, friends’ houses and local reputation before the modern brand-film cycle took over.

Minnesota With Lupe And Dale

Crossing Paths Minnesota added another key location. Good Company’s short placed Lupe Hagearty, Forster Meeks and Dale Talkington in the street-skiing world of Minnesota during the winter of 2018. Downdays described the piece as both an urban ski trip and a look at why Minnesota matters to street skiing and snowboarding.

Minnesota changes the rhythm. The rails are long, the cold is real, and the street architecture has shaped years of American ski and snowboard clips. Meeks’ skiing works there because it does not need a perfect feature. He can make a rough inrun, a long slide or an awkward exit feel like part of the plan.

ON3P 4 Set The Boys Loose

ON3P 4 became one of the clearest team-film anchors in his archive. Newschoolers lists the movie as a Minnesota street project featuring Forster Meeks, Alex Hackel, Siver Voll, Eirik Moberg and Pete Christensen, with Oliver Hoblitzelle filming and editing. The description says the boys were set loose on the streets.

That phrase fits the footage and the brand relationship. ON3P’s street films are not built like clean contest reels. They lean into mayhem, personality, heavy rails, strange landings and skiers who look like they belong on handmade skis from Portland more than in a polished federation uniform. Meeks fits that world naturally.

How Meeks Makes Wide Skis Look Normal

Meeks has long been tied to a visual oddity: wide, soft, playful skis sliding rails and absorbing impacts in places where a narrower park ski would seem more expected. Early Newschoolers coverage mentioned his unmistakable Surface powder skis, and later ON3P projects kept that wide-ski, heavy-style identity alive.

The technical details are subtle. Watch the way he gets pressure onto the ski before the feature, lets the platform bend, then exits without rushing. He uses butters, surface swaps, slow presses, redirects, wall touches and slides that look half out of control until the landing proves otherwise. His skiing is physical, but it rarely feels stiff.

ACL Time And The If-When Return

Newschoolers’ 2020 interview “It’s not an If; it’s a When” caught Meeks during an injury period after an ACL problem. The article framed him as HoodCrew alumni and an ON3P team rider, still carrying that raw ski-bum identity even while the season was interrupted.

The injury context matters because street skiing punishes knees. Landings are flat, rails are imperfect, snow is thin and repeat attempts stack up. A skier who builds a career around those conditions has to accept downtime as part of the cycle. Meeks’ return was not about a single comeback result. It was about getting back to filming, Hood laps and the ON3P crew rhythm.

Crushin’ Cans And The ON3P Pro Thread

The ON3P Crushin’ Cans ski gives Meeks a rare equipment marker for a street skier without mainstream contest medals. Newschoolers’ gear listing describes Crushin’ Cans as Forster Meeks’ first topsheet and base graphic, built around strong, fast, full-bodied skiing with an aggressive style and smooth finish.

That product story matters because it shows how much identity his skiing carries. A pro-model or pro-graphic ski in this lane is not only a sales item. It means the skier’s movement, taste and audience are strong enough to become part of a brand object. For Meeks, the match is clear: ON3P, Portland-built skis, street clips, wide platforms and a style that skiers remember.

ON3P 6 Into The Modern Street Run

ON3P 6, released in 2023, kept Meeks inside the brand’s modern street-film sequence. Downdays listed the movie with Eirik “Kryptoskier” Moberg, Forster Meeks, Jake Mageau, Oscar Weary, Chase Mohrman and Maximilliam “BMack” Smith. That roster connects several generations and styles of rail skiing.

Meeks’ role in that lineup is not to look like the youngest new name. It is to hold down a distinct lane. Moberg brings Norwegian strangeness, Mageau brings technical creativity, Weary brings power, and Meeks brings a heavy, loose, almost stubborn way of seeing metal and snow. The mix makes ON3P’s in-house films feel less like team ads and more like crew documents.

ON3P 7 Across Four Countries

ON3P 7 widened the geography. iF3 describes the film as a street movie with Forster Meeks, Eirik Moberg, Maximilliam Smith and Andrew Branch traveling through Estonia, Japan, Canada and Norway to find street spots. Espen Thomassen directed the project.

That kind of travel tests a street skier differently from a resort film. Estonia, Japan, Canada and Norway do not offer the same rails, snow, architecture or daily rhythm. A skier has to adapt to each city’s texture: cold metal, wet snow, security, stairs, roofs, closeouts and landings that may work for one hour before disappearing.

ON3P 8 And The Still-Active Archive

ON3P 8 continued the sequence, with public listings naming Jake Mageau, Oscar Weary, Eirik Moberg, Forster Meeks and Maximilliam Smith among the featured skiers. The fact that Meeks remains in the eighth chapter matters. His archive is not frozen in a nostalgic Hood Crew past.

That longevity is the strongest point of the page. Many street skiers burn bright for one or two films, then disappear. Meeks keeps appearing: Hood, Utah, Minnesota, Stain, ON3P 4, ON3P 6, ON3P 7, ON3P 8, and brand projects built around his skiing. The line is not clean or corporate. It is consistent.

Wine Harvests, Model Citizen And The Working Skier

Powder’s 2024 story on Model Citizen Wines placed Meeks beside Abner Wyman in a different kind of project. The article says the two met as skiers in Salt Lake City more than a decade earlier and later built a wine project together. That fits the older “Working Man’s Skier” image from Newschoolers.

The connection matters because Meeks has never read like a detached pro athlete. His public identity includes work, travel, harvest seasons, friends, injuries, moving between places and still finding ways to ski. That is part of the appeal. The skiing is not separated from the life around it.

Where The Meeks Archive Belongs

The strongest skipowd.tv tags for Forster Meeks are Salt Lake City, Mt. Hood, Hood Crew, ON3P, Crushin’ Cans, Stain, ON3P 4, ON3P 6, ON3P 7, ON3P 8, Crossing Paths Minnesota, Minnesota street skiing, street skiing, rails, butters, presses and creative jib.

The current endpoint is clear: Meeks remains an active ON3P street-film figure, with recent ON3P chapters extending a career that started in Hood summers and Utah streets. Future updates should track new ON3P films, verified solo edits, Crushin’ Cans product updates, Off The Leash clips, and any new Model Citizen or ski-culture projects that keep joining work, travel and street skiing into the same story.