Keegan Kilbride

Portland, Maine, USA | Active: 2012-present public ski record | Discipline: Street Skiing, Urban Freeskiing and Creative Park | Known for: SuperUnknown XIII, Habit, X Games Real Ski, Slim to None, TRYHARD

Moscow Concrete After The SuperUnknown Call

The street spot in Moscow looked cold, gray and badly suited to clean skiing. Concrete sat under the snow, metal edges rang against rails, and Keegan Kilbride had to turn a Level 1 opportunity into proof. In 2016, after winning SuperUnknown XIII, the skier from Portland, Maine earned more than a handshake. He was sent to film with Level 1, opening the door to the kind of urban skiing where one rail, one wall, or one violent landing can define a season. By the time Habit arrived in 2017, the unknown skier from Sugarloaf had become one of street skiing’s sharpest new names.

Sugarloaf Weekends Before Breckenridge Rent

Kilbride grew up in Portland, Maine, and learned his skiing through Sugarloaf, a mountain about two hours north of the city. In a Powder interview, he explained that his aunt had a condo there and brought him up often, even though his immediate family did not come from a heavy ski background. From those weekends, he entered a Sugarloaf program and began spending time in the park.

After high school, he moved to Breckenridge, Colorado with a car and a few pairs of skis. That move matters because it placed an East Coast skier into a larger freestyle environment without removing the habits he had already built. Maine and Colorado shaped different parts of the same skier: hardpack rail patience from the East, then bigger parks, longer winters, and a film network in the Rockies.

Junior Nationals Before The Street Myth

Before the video career took over, Kilbride had a real competition base. FIS lists him as an American freestyler born in 1995, with FIS code 2530901 and a non-active status. Local Maine coverage from 2014 described him as an 18-year-old Portland native at Carrabassett Valley Academy who had won the Junior National slopestyle championship in Park City, Utah, then earned a place at the Freestyle Junior World Ski Championships in Valmalenco, Italy.

That background is useful because it prevents his street career from sounding accidental. He had slopestyle training, jump timing, rail sections, competition pressure and enough FIS structure to understand a full course. The later identity became looser and more dangerous, but the base was technical. Urban skiing did not replace fundamentals. It gave those fundamentals stranger objects to solve.

SuperUnknown XIII At Winter Park

Level 1’s SuperUnknown XIII finals took place at Winter Park Resort, Colorado, in 2016. The official SuperUnknown archive lists Kilbride as that year’s winner, and Level 1’s recap says rider votes decided the title after a week with ten finalists. The event mattered because SuperUnknown had already become one of freeskiing’s most trusted bridges from unknown edit skier to wider film audience.

Kilbride’s win changed his career immediately. Powder later reported that the result earned him a Level 1 athlete roster spot, a trip to Moscow to film a street segment, and the opening segment in Habit. The detail is important: he was not simply selected as another park talent. Level 1 put him into the urban film lane, where style, risk, patience and spot choice are judged by rewatch value.

Habit Turned The Opening Segment Into A Calling Card

Habit, released by Level 1 in 2017, placed Kilbride in a cast with Tatum Monod, Laurent De Martin, Sämi Ortlieb, Wiley Miller, Will Wesson, Khai Krepela, Thayne Rich, LJ Strenio, Rob Heule, McRae Williams and others. The official Level 1 page lists filming locations across Iceland, Russia, Finland, British Columbia, Mammoth Mountain, Winter Park, Banff, Alaska, Colorado, Michigan, New York and Utah.

The film gave Kilbride exactly the right frame. His skiing did not need clean contest fences or perfect jump speed. It needed rails, walls, down-flat-downs, rough snow, stairs, kinked metal, close landings and the tension of a skier holding balance longer than expected. iF3 later named him Discovery of the Year for his Habit performance, while Powder awarded him Breakthrough Performer of the Year. Those awards turned the part into a public career marker.

Eat The Guts And The HG Street Language

Eat The Guts, the 2017 HG Skis project, connected Kilbride with Alex Hackel, Connor Gaeta, Jamie Amodeo, Cole Gibson, Christian Franchino, Jeremie Veilleux and Hunter Tyrrell. The project was filmed across two years and presented with Tall T Productions support. It belongs to the same street era as Habit, but with a rawer East Coast and crew-film texture.

Kilbride’s part in that world made sense because he skied like someone willing to let a trick look uncomfortable. Long rails, wall rides, redirects, heavy impacts, disaster-style landings, 450s on, switch-ups, pretzels and sideways body positions all fit his vocabulary. The HG setting also placed him beside skiers who valued style without smoothing out the risk. His street skiing carried pressure, but it still looked loose enough to feel human.

Real Ski Bronze With Ethan Timmons

X Games Real Ski 2018 gave Kilbride his most visible medal. The format was all-video and all-urban, and the invited field included Mike Hornbeck, LJ Strenio, Phil Casabon, Magnus Granér and Antti Ollila. Kilbride’s entry with filmer Ethan Timmons won bronze. That matters more than a standard third place because Real Ski judged the exact world where he had built his name: street spots, filming, trick selection and edit impact.

The medal also showed where he stood among very specific peers. Hornbeck, Strenio, Casabon, Granér and Ollila each represent a different language of urban skiing, from flow to technical rail work to conceptual spot use. Kilbride’s bronze did not make him a contest skier. It confirmed that his video skiing could hold up when translated into an X Games format.

Slim To None From Maine To Montana

Slim to None, released in 2021, gave Kilbride a more self-directed project. iF3 described the film as following him from the streets of his home state of Maine to the backcountry of Montana, then back to Colorado with his classic crew. The directors were Keegan Kilbride and Cameron Willis, and the production was credited to Keegan Kilbride and Cam Willis.

The geography is the point. Maine returned him to the cold streets and familiar eastern texture that first shaped his skiing. Montana added backcountry snow, landings and a different kind of consequence. Colorado brought the crew element back into the frame. In a Newschoolers interview, Kilbride described the project as a movie with friends and skiers he loved, while also raising money for an organization in Maine to help children get outdoors. That gave the film a personal weight beyond tricks.

Video Part And The Clayton Vila Cut

By 2023, Kilbride had enough history that a single street part could carry expectation on its own. Video Part, presented by Monster Energy, was filmed primarily by Ethan Timmons and Cam Willis, with additional cinematography from Mike Babbit, Clayton Vila and George Burghall. Clayton Vila edited the project, and support credits included Tall T Productions, K2 Skis, Wells Lamont Snow and Arsenic.

The project underlined a late-career strength: Kilbride’s skiing still looked current. Street skiing changes quickly. A trick that felt heavy in 2017 can look ordinary a few winters later if the skier does not keep pushing spot choice, rail difficulty and impact. Video Part kept the Kilbride identity intact through harder rails, sharper edits, fast pacing and the kind of ender that gets discussed for its risk as much as its technique.

TRYHARD And The 2024 Street Standard

TRYHARD, released as a 2024 street ski video and covered by Downdays in March 2025, continued that line. The project was presented by Monster Energy and Josh Bishop, with Ethan Timmons as principal cinematographer and Clayton Vila editing. Support credits included Tall T Productions, Paul Dowell, K2 Skis, Arsenic, TTD and Newschoolers.

That support list shows how many parts of the street-skiing network still gather around him. Timmons and Vila give the project filming and editing credibility. Monster and K2 give brand weight. Newschoolers and Tall T connect it back to the online and crew systems that helped build his name. TRYHARD did not need a podium to matter. It showed that Kilbride was still willing to put new street footage into a scene that remembers every shortcut.

Monster, K2, Harlaut Apparel And The Current Kit

Kilbride’s current public sponsor picture is clearest through recent media and social references. His Instagram profile lists Monster Energy, Harlaut Apparel Co and K2 Skis. Newschoolers discussed his move to K2, his Monster relationship, and his focus on filming. Downdays’ TRYHARD listing also names Monster and K2 among the project support.

The sponsor mix fits the skier. K2 connects him to a broader freeski team with park, street and backcountry range. Monster fits the video-part and event world where street clips can travel as hard as contest wins. Harlaut Apparel places him close to the style-first side of modern freeskiing. That matters because Kilbride’s value is not only difficulty. It is how a trick looks under a jacket, on a rail, in a city, with the landing never guaranteed.

Why Kilbride Still Belongs To Street Skiing’s Front Page

Kilbride’s record supports a 4/5 importance score. He has an X Games Real Ski bronze medal, Level 1 SuperUnknown XIII, Powder and iF3 awards, a Junior Nationals background, Level 1 movie parts, HG’s Eat The Guts, Slim to None, Video Part and TRYHARD. He does not have the Olympic or multiple-X-Games medal résumé required for the highest contest category, but his street influence is clear.

The accurate endpoint is a skier still filming after the breakthrough glow faded. From Portland and Sugarloaf to Breckenridge, Moscow, Maine streets, Montana snow, Colorado crews and current Monster/K2-supported street parts, Kilbride’s profile stays specific: rails, cities, impact, edits and a style that made urban skiing look dangerous without making it look forced.