Ryan Buttars - Freeski Street USA

Telluride, Colorado | Active FIS athlete: Ryan BUTTARS, born 2007, FIS Code 2538541 | Public record: WyEast Mountain Academy, Copper National Championships, Stoneham Nor-Am, Okemo FIS win, Red Bull Cascade, Jib League, ON3P, Jiberish | Main lane: rail event, slopestyle, Big Air, park edits

Copper Metal Before The Spring Slush Broke

The Copper Mountain rail deck in April still had winter bite in the morning, with salted takeoffs turning glassy before the sun softened the landing. Ryan Buttars put his strongest public marker there in 2024, winning the National Championships rail event. One year later, he returned to Copper and stayed in the same conversation, finishing third in rail event and fourth in slopestyle. Those results give his profile a clean starting point. He is not yet a World Cup name or an Olympic-team athlete. He is an American park skier whose best verified evidence sits on rails, slopestyle lines, and the younger creative contest space.

Telluride Name On A WyEast FIS Profile

Buttars’ official FIS biography lists him as Ryan BUTTARS of the United States, born on May 16, 2007, with FIS Code 2538541 and WyEast Mountain Academy attached to the profile. Wear Leathers adds a more personal frame: hometown Telluride, Colorado; home mountain Telluride Ski Resort; favorite mountain Ski Bowl, Oregon; and ON3P listed as his skis. That combination explains the shape of the public record. Telluride gives the mountain base, WyEast gives the academy and summer-training structure, and Mt. Hood / Oregon park culture helps explain why his skiing appears so often in rail, Timberline, and Woodward-style contexts.

First FIS Starts Before The Rail Results

The FIS trail begins before the Copper rail win. Buttars appears in 2022 slopestyle results at Mammoth Mountain and Copper Mountain, then in 2023 at Woodward Park City, Northstar California, and Copper Mountain. Those early results are not podium headlines, but they matter because they show a skier entering scored park events before the creative side of his profile widened. His 2023 Woodward Park City sixth place sits as a useful early marker. The event category was slopestyle, which demands more than a single rail trick: speed, jump timing, rail entries, grabs, rotations, landings, and the ability to keep a run connected.

Copper 2024 Made Rail Event The Anchor

The 2024 Copper Mountain National Championships rail event is the sharpest early result. FIS lists Buttars first in that discipline on April 6, 2024. Two days later, the same National Championships week placed him forty-eighth in slopestyle, which keeps the result honest. His public strength at that moment was not full-course dominance. It was rail-event precision. That difference should shape the biography. Rail events compress skiing into balance, pop, edge control, press position, switch exits, transfers, and the ability to make one feature or one line feel complete. Buttars’ first national-level FIS win came inside that tighter rail format.

Okemo And Stoneham Built The 2025 Season

The 2025 season added more depth. Buttars won a FIS slopestyle at Okemo Mountain Resort on February 5, giving him a full-course victory in the public record. Later that month, he finished eighth in Nor-Am Cup slopestyle at Stoneham, then twenty-first in Big Air at the same Quebec stop. In March, he placed twenty-first in Nor-Am slopestyle at Winsport Calgary. The season then circled back to Copper in April, where he finished third in rail event and fourth in slopestyle at the National Championships. The pattern is useful: rail strength first, then enough slopestyle consistency to make the profile broader.

Why His Skiing Reads Rail-First

Buttars’ verified event mix points toward a park toolkit built around rails and full-course adaptability. The technical vocabulary should stay grounded: rail events, lips, transfers, switch exits, edge pressure, pop, slopestyle rhythm, Big Air takeoff speed, grabs, rotations, landing direction, and course composition. His public sources do not publish a complete signature-trick list, so the article should avoid inventing one. What can be said is clearer: his best official results come from rail event and slopestyle, while the Jib League and ON3P footage around him places that same skill set into a more creative, rider-led environment.

Jib League Put Him Beside The Culture Names

Downdays’ Jib League coverage places Buttars in the Woodward Copper season-three environment with skiers such as Ferdinand Dahl, Olivia Asselin, James Woods, Edouard Therriault, Tormod Frostad, Øystein Bråten, Jennie-Lee Burmansson, Alaïs Develay, Pierre-Emile Rochat, Tucker Fitzsimons, Ryan Stevenson and others across the episode tags. That matters because Jib League measures a different part of skiing than FIS. It rewards rail creativity, spot use, fast adaptation, and how riders react to one another in a shared session. For a young skier, appearing in that setting says he belongs near the conversation around modern park culture, not only academy start lists.

Red Bull Cascade At Solitude

Red Bull Cascade 2025 added another team-format marker. Powder reported that Team 1738 won at Solitude Mountain Resort with Cody LaPlante, Hans Wiener, Jed Waters, Josie Petersen, and Ryan Buttars. The event used Bobby Brown’s mile-long freeski course and a team scoring format, with changing weather forcing the podium to be decided from semi-final scores. Buttars’ role should not be inflated into an individual career-defining win. The accurate reading is better: he was trusted on a mixed team with established skiers, inside an event designed around flow, speed, creativity, and park-to-mountain linking rather than standard slopestyle judging.

ON3P, Jiberish, And The Hood Loop

Buttars’ support and video context points strongly toward ON3P, Jiberish, and the Mt. Hood / Timberline / Woodward Copper circuit. Wear Leathers lists ON3P as his skis. Downdays connects him to ON3P Team Week X Timberline, a summer session filmed and edited by Owen Dahlberg with a crew including Jake Mageau, Topher Newett, Oscar Weary, Reece Rule, Rudy Lépine, Sam Lobinsky and others. Jiberish League coverage places him among a group of rail-focused skiers at Woodward Copper. That is the right sponsor-and-scene frame: not a giant Olympic equipment sheet, but a visible place inside current American park and rail culture.

Take The Stairs And The Street Direction

Newschoolers lists Buttars as additional skiing in TAKE THE STAIRS by The Runge, a 2024 street film featuring Eric Nicholson, Timo Berg and Camden Williams, with support from J Skis. The note around the film jokes about the cost of an escalator, which gives a clue about the project’s terrain: street spots, awkward setups, and features that need work before skiing can happen. Buttars is not presented as the main athlete in that film, so the credit should stay modest. It still helps the page because it shows his public profile reaching beyond resort park edits and into street-ski projects.

Stoneham Keeps The Current Record Open

The 2026 FIS file keeps Buttars active in the Nor-Am lane. At Stoneham, Quebec, he finished fifty-seventh in rail event, eighteenth in slopestyle, and sixty-fourth in Big Air. At Copper Mountain in January, he finished nineteenth in Nor-Am slopestyle. Those results are mixed, but they are useful. They show an athlete still entering real fields rather than living only through clips. The strongest result in that group is the Stoneham slopestyle eighteenth, which sits as a current competitive marker while his rail and video identity continues to carry the more distinctive part of the page.

Where Buttars Fits On Skipowd.tv

Ryan Buttars fits skipowd.tv as a 3/5 emerging American rail and park profile. The verified material is stronger than a minimal youth page: active FIS profile, WyEast Mountain Academy, Copper rail-event win, Copper 2025 rail podium, Okemo slopestyle win, Stoneham Nor-Am top ten in 2025, Red Bull Cascade team win, Jib League / Jiberish context, ON3P visibility, and a TAKE THE STAIRS credit. It is not yet a 4/5 profile because there is no World Cup podium, X Games medal, Olympic record, or major solo film archive. The precise ending is enough: a Telluride-linked young skier building public weight through rails, park contests, summer snow, and crew-format skiing.