Kysen Hall

Ogden, Utah | Public Record: 2014-2025 | Known for: Vishnu street skiing, Brighton park clips, Tears of Joy, KH Brand outerwear | Current: KH Brand design and Vishnu-linked video archive

Brighton When The Ledge Was Cold

Brighton’s park can look simple from the lift until the first ski edge hits a frozen rail. The light is hard, the landings turn blue in the afternoon, and Kysen Hall’s public ski identity comes from that kind of place: Utah features, fast setups, compact movements, and street-influenced park skiing.

Hall is not documented as an Olympic, X Games, or World Cup-level contest skier. His record points somewhere else. FIS shows a short slopestyle competition window, then the visible story shifts toward Troupe edits, Vishnu projects, street trips, Brighton clips, Ogden design work, and a skier-owned clothing project built around small-batch outerwear.

Park City United On The FIS Page

FIS lists Kysen Hall as a United States freestyle skier, born in 1995, attached to Park City United. His official results are limited but clear: 42nd in slopestyle at Sun Valley on March 5, 2014, 42nd at the Mammoth Mountain Nor-Am Cup on February 10, 2015, and 4th at a Mammoth Mountain FIS slopestyle event on March 17, 2015.

That 2015 Mammoth result is his strongest public contest marker. The field included Jonah Williams, Birk Irving, Aaron Milligan, Dylan Sondrup, Hunter Hess, Tucker Fitzsimons, Quinn Wolferman, and other riders from the North American park pipeline. After that phase, Hall’s public footprint becomes less about bib numbers and more about clips.

The Sunny Afternoon At PC

Troupe’s Newschoolers interview gives Hall one of his clearest early creative references. Aiden Ulrich said his favorite edit that winter was filmed with Hall over a few hours on one sunny afternoon at PC. The explanation focused on cohesion, editing rhythm, and Hall’s “snappy clean style,” which is a rare direct description of his skiing from inside the crew.

That edit matters because it frames Hall through movement rather than résumé. Park City offered rails, transitions, and controlled terrain, but the point was not a formal run. It was how he moved through the setup: quick pop, centered landings, compact body position, and a style that fit Troupe’s film-first approach.

Two Days At Brighton With Vishnu

In March 2017, Vishnu released KYSEN HALL - Welcome to VISHNU on Newschoolers. The description kept the scale tight: two days at Brighton with a full street part teased afterward. That placed Hall directly inside Vishnu’s orbit, a ski brand and media crew built around narrow skis, rails, humor, and anti-polished park culture.

Brighton became an important repeated location in that period. The mountain’s park, Wasatch snow, and local Utah rider network gave Vishnu the right setting for low-budget, high-style clips. Hall’s lane inside that world was not double cork contest training. It was pressing, sliding, tapping, redirecting, and making small features look deliberate.

Joint Pains And The Vishnu Crew Language

Downdays published Joint Pains Vol. 10 in August 2018 and listed Tamas Woodley, Cal Carson, Hall, and Dylan Manley in the Brighton, Utah episode. The description positioned the clip as park skiing with fresh trick selection, which fits Vishnu’s broader identity: less scoreboard, more personality, rail texture, and feature choice.

That crew language carries through the tricks. Vishnu edits tend to value nose presses, wallrides, surface swaps, handrail control, slow rotations, odd takeoffs, and landings that feel borrowed from skate videos. Hall’s appearances work inside that grammar. The skiing is judged by timing and taste, not by a federation points list.

Pallet, Streets, And The Long Vishnu Arc

Hall’s name also appears in the Vishnu team-movie environment around Pallet, listed by Downdays with Dylan Manley, Luke Roberts, Cal Carson, Liam Angus, Loren Daughton, and Parviz Faiz. That group represented a street-first corner of American freeskiing, where crews spent more time shoveling run-ins than waiting for perfect resort jumps.

By 2023, Tears of Joy gave Hall another strong public reference. Downdays described the project as a two-season street effort from Hall, Dylan Manley, and Luke Roberts. The Newchoolers video listing adds that it was filmed from 2021 to 2023 across multiple trips, with countless spots and extensive shoveling before the final cut.

Street Skiing Without The Contest Filter

Tears of Joy is the project that best explains Hall’s mature ski profile. Street skiing strips away the normal resort framework. A rider has to read a staircase, decide whether the rail speed works, build the takeoff, pack the landing, manage traffic, take impacts, and still make the clip look calm.

Hall’s public identity fits that process. His skiing is not built around height over a slopestyle jump. It is built around short approaches, metal contact, ski pressure, switch control, stair-set consequences, and crew trust. In that environment, Dylan Manley and Luke Roberts are not just cast names. They are part of the session’s structure.

Ogden Sewing Tables And KH Brand

The Two Planker Podcast episode from May 2023 introduced Hall as a Vishnu team rider and outdoor gear designer. Its show notes point to life back in Ogden, a Montana street-trip injury, his ski background, linking up with Vishnu, an outdoor company, clothing work, tying flies, sewing, and full-time guiding.

KH Brand turns that design side into something visible. The site describes the project as outdoor apparel designed by Kysen Hall, small-batch, self-tested, and run as a one-man operation. Product pages list technical details such as 3L shell construction, a 20K wind/waterproof membrane, waterproof zippers, vents, boot gaiters, relaxed fits, and “designed in Ogden, Utah.”

Where Kysen Hall Fits

Hall’s profile is narrow but coherent. He moved from a short Park City United contest record into a more durable street and park identity through Troupe, Vishnu, Brighton clips, Pallet, Joint Pains, and Tears of Joy. The documentation does not support a long elite-competition biography, but it does support a creative freeski profile.

The current frame is practical: Ogden design work, KH Brand outerwear, a Vishnu-linked video archive, and a street-skiing record tied to Manley, Roberts, Carson, Woodley, and the Utah park scene. Hall belongs to the layer of freeskiing where rails, shovels, sewing machines, small crews, and cold landings carry the story.