Teal Harle

Campbell River / Whistler, British Columbia, Canada | Active: FIS record listed as not active | Discipline: freeski slopestyle, big air, backcountry filming | Verified: two Olympic starts, PyeongChang 2018 slopestyle 5th, two X Games Big Air medals, two World Cup wins | Current: filming and big-mountain transition with TGR / Norrøna / Atomic links

Phoenix Snow Park With One Run Left

Phoenix Snow Park was cold and bright, the slopestyle course cut into hard Korean snow and shadow. Teal Harle stood above run three with two low scores already on the board, then pushed into the rails with one chance left.

The final run scored 90.00. Øystein Bråten had already set the gold-medal mark at 95.00, Nick Goepper would climb to silver with 93.60, and Alex Beaulieu-Marchand held bronze on 92.40. Harle finished fifth, 2.40 points from Canada’s second medal in the same final. For a skier who had arrived from Campbell River, Whistler parks, Canada Games success, and a late push into the Olympic team, that run became the sharpest contest image of his career: not a medal, but a full-pressure Olympic answer.

Campbell River Before The National Team Call

Harle was born on October 5, 1996, in Campbell River, British Columbia. Team Canada lists his residence as Whistler, and that west-coast split explains much of the skier. Campbell River gave him Vancouver Island roots. Whistler gave him park infrastructure, national-team proximity, and a wider freeski scene.

He started skiing through the Nancy Greene program at age six, then discovered freestyle skiing around age nine. Team Canada records that he joined a local club the next year and finished last in every event at his first competition when he was twelve. That detail gives the later career a useful shape. Harle was not presented as an instant contest machine. He moved from local failure to national-team selection through repetition, park time, and a style that became more recognizable once the tricks got larger.

Prince George And The Dumont Cup Signal

The 2014-15 season gave Harle his first major public lift. At the Canada Winter Games in Prince George, he won gold in both slopestyle and big air. Team Canada also records a silver medal at the Dumont Cup, a platinum Association of Freeskiing Professionals event, where he shared the podium with Bobby Brown and James Woods.

That Dumont Cup detail matters more than a normal junior result. Brown and Woods were already established X Games names, and finishing beside them gave Harle credibility beyond the Canadian domestic pathway. The Canada Games medals showed he could win at home. The Dumont Cup showed his skiing could travel into a field shaped by older contest stars.

He was named to the Canadian national team that summer. In March 2015, he made his first FIS World Cup start at Silvaplana, Switzerland. The Corvatsch course would later become one of the defining places in his career.

Silvaplana When The Last Rail Worked

Harle’s first World Cup podium was not a bronze or silver. It was a win. In 2017 at Silvaplana, he took his first World Cup medal by standing on top of the slopestyle podium. Team Canada notes that he had learned a new trick for the last rail feature and performed it cleanly in both final runs.

That kind of detail helps explain his skiing. Harle was never only a jump-count athlete. His best slopestyle runs carried rail value, switch control, and an ability to make awkward features part of the score. Silvaplana asks for that. The course sits high above the Engadin valley, with spring light, long features, fast landings, and rail sections that can ruin a run before the jumps begin.

The win also placed Harle inside a strong Canadian men’s group with Alex Beaulieu-Marchand, Evan McEachran, Max Moffatt, and later Édouard Therriault. Canada did not have one slopestyle story in that era. It had depth, and Harle’s Silvaplana win made him part of the Olympic argument.

Mammoth Nineteen Days Before The Games

On January 21, 2018, Harle won the Mammoth Mountain slopestyle World Cup. The timing was exact: nineteen days before the Winter Olympics. The podium placed Harle first, Andri Ragettli second, and Evan McEachran third, giving Canada two riders on the final World Cup podium before PyeongChang.

Mammoth is a specific kind of test. The California course can run fast under Sierra sun, then soften through the day. Landings change, rails get scraped, and the jump line demands clean speed management. Harle’s win did not only secure Olympic confidence. It gave him a direct result against Ragettli, one of the most precise slopestyle skiers of the generation.

That result sharpened the Olympic stakes. Harle was not going to Korea as a hopeful passenger. He had a World Cup win in the same discipline less than three weeks before the final.

How Harle Built Style Into Big Air

Harle’s skiing is easier to recognize than to reduce. His contest vocabulary includes switch doubles, double corks, triple variations, bring-backs, safety grabs, tail grabs, mute grabs, rail transfers, wallie entries, disaster rails, 450s, and full-course speed control. The strongest part is how he makes high-difficulty tricks look less rigid than the score sheet suggests.

At PyeongChang, Newschoolers recorded his final run with a wallie over the rainbow to right 450 on, switch left 360 switch 50-50 180 out, left 450 disaster continuing 270, flat double 1080, double 1260 lead tail, and switch double 1440 mute. That run shows the architecture: rails first, then jump difficulty, then a heavy switch final hit.

Compared with Alex Beaulieu-Marchand, Harle looked looser through grabs and body language. Compared with Evan McEachran, he carried more big-air personality. Compared with Mac Forehand or Alex Hall, he had less of the later 2160-era trick ceiling, but he made big spins feel more casual, more west-coast, and less machine-built.

Quebec City, Beijing Steel, Atlanta Lights

After the PyeongChang fifth place, Harle’s best results shifted more strongly toward big air. Team Canada records a bronze medal at the Quebec City Big Air World Cup to close the 2017-18 season. That gave him a first World Cup medal in the discipline and confirmed that his jump skills could stand outside a full slopestyle course.

In December 2019, he took big-air silver at Big Air Shougang in Beijing, the same industrial venue later used for the 2022 Olympic Games. One week later, he won big-air bronze in Atlanta. The Atlanta podium placed Alex Hall first, Antoine Adelisse second, and Harle third, with scores separated by narrow margins.

Those city events changed the feeling of the career. Slopestyle had given him the Olympic final and World Cup wins. Big air gave him repeated visibility in scaffolded, urban, night-event settings where one jump had to hold the entire argument.

Chur And The Sixth World Cup Medal

In October 2021, Harle opened the Olympic season with silver at the Big Air Chur World Cup in Switzerland. Freestyle Canada called it his sixth career World Cup medal and his third in big air. The event was won by Matěj Švancer with a huge 99.00-scoring trick, while Harle finished runner-up ahead of Birk Ruud.

Chur is a festival big-air venue, not a mountain course. The jump is exposed, the crowd sits close, and weather can interrupt the event quickly. Harle’s qualifier score of 97.50, recorded by Freestyle Canada, showed that he could still put a top-tier trick down under one-jump pressure at the start of a major season.

That result also framed Beijing 2022. Harle had medals, Olympic experience, and big-air form. The Games did not deliver the finals he wanted, but the pathway into them was real.

Beijing 2022 Without The Second Final

Harle returned to the Olympics at Beijing 2022 and competed in both big air and slopestyle. Team Canada records the second Olympic appearance, while Olympic and FIS result tables place him outside the slopestyle final. He finished twenty-sixth in qualification at Genting Snow Park.

That result sits bluntly beside the 2018 fifth place. Olympic careers often turn on one clean day, and Harle had already lived both sides of that truth. In Korea, run three brought him close to a medal. In China, qualification did not open the same door.

The big-air chapter around Beijing is still important. Big Air Shougang had already been one of his World Cup podium venues in 2019, so he arrived with history on the ramp. The Olympic result did not erase that, but it did help push the later career away from start lists and toward footage.

Aspen Bronze, Aspen Silver

Harle’s X Games medals came after both Olympic appearances had already shaped his public record. At X Games Aspen 2022, he took bronze in men’s ski big air behind Alex Hall and Mac Forehand. ESPN reported that Hall won with tricks including a 1980 and the first X Games 2160, while Forehand and Harle both earned their first X Games medals.

One year later, Harle moved up to silver in the same event. Team Canada’s 2023 X Games recap recorded Mac Forehand gold, Harle silver, and Birk Ruud bronze, with Harle counting scores of 49 and 47 and finishing one point behind Forehand’s winning total.

The back-to-back X Games medals changed his importance score. Harle was no longer only the Canadian who finished fifth at PyeongChang. He was a two-time X Games Big Air medalist with a career that stayed relevant into the next generation of trick progression.

Atomic, Dakine, Norrøna, And The Mountain Shift

BUG Visionaries lists Atomic and Dakine as Harle sponsors, while his public profile has also linked him to Atomic and Norrøna. In September 2025, Norrøna announced Harle, Maggie Voisin, and McRae Williams as North American ambassadors while noting that all three were featured in Teton Gravity Research’s Pressure Drop.

The equipment and brand context reflects the career shift. Atomic and Dakine fit the contest and all-mountain freestyle identity: skis, packs, gloves, outerwear, and travel gear for park, big air, and powder. Norrøna points more clearly toward the current mountain chapter, where outerwear, storm days, filming, and backcountry logistics matter as much as bib events.

Harle’s summer work as a steelhead fly-fishing guide in British Columbia also fits the shift. Team Canada lists fishing, camping, and skateboarding among his outside interests. That west-coast life now sits closer to the ski image than a strict World Cup calendar does.

Pressure Drop And The First Heli-Ski Line

Teton Gravity Research placed Harle in Pressure Drop, its 30th annual ski film, with filming in British Columbia and a segment tied to Great Bear Heli. In a TGR interview, Harle said he was done competing and fully focused on filming a part for the next movie.

The shift is not cosmetic. Backcountry filming asks different questions than big air. The skier has to read snowpack, terrain exposure, speed, landing angle, slough, visibility, crew communication, and heli timing. Harle’s contest skills still matter, but they are no longer enough by themselves.

Freeskier’s Just Skiing feature had already shown the direction earlier, with Teal and Kole Harle in Revelstoke after seven consecutive refill nights. That footage made powder feel less like a side interest and more like a second language waiting for the contest years to loosen their hold.

The Current Line Runs Beyond The Score

FIS lists Harle as not active, so he should not be framed as a current World Cup skier. The stronger current profile is more precise: two-time Olympian, Olympic finalist, two-time X Games Big Air medalist, six-time World Cup medalist, and Canadian freeskier moving into backcountry film.

For skipowd.tv, the watch path starts with Prince George 2015, then Silvaplana 2017 and Mammoth 2018 for the World Cup wins. PyeongChang 2018 gives the near-medal Olympic run, Beijing and Atlanta 2019 show the city big-air phase, Chur 2021 adds the final World Cup podium push, Aspen 2022 and 2023 give the X Games medals, and Pressure Drop opens the next chapter: Whistler, Great Bear Heli, Revelstoke memory, and a skier trying to carry contest smoothness into bigger snow.