Will Deschenes

United States / East Coast scene | Active: 2017-present public ski record | Focus: street skiing, park, East Coast edits, ski culture projects | Current: Anytides cofounder and Keep Standing video appearance

Sugarbush Rails In Mid-Winter Light

The Sugarbush park sat cold and fast, rails scraped by mid-winter laps while the East Coast crew moved feature to feature without waiting for perfect snow. Will Deschenes appeared in that 2022 Lappin’ episode with skiers such as Sam Putnam, Matt Stackhouse, Andy Hoblitzelle, Chris Bechtold, Sawyer Sellingham, Rory Walsh, Linus Nygard and Chase Mohrman. The setting explains his public profile better than a ranking sheet. Deschenes is not documented as a World Cup skier or a major contest athlete. His record sits in park clips, street films, brand culture, and the smaller East Coast network where a rail line can carry more weight than a medal table.

Where’s The Beef On The Ice Coast

One of the earliest clean anchors is Will Deschenes - Where’s the beef, published on Newschoolers in April 2017. The page credits Lilwill, tags the edit with rails, park and East Coast, and describes the footage as Fat-Ypus 2016-17 Ice Coast. That small description gives enough terrain context to avoid inflating the profile. The edit belongs to the hard-snow, short-run, rail-heavy side of skiing: icy approaches, compact park features, quick laps and technical decisions made on features that do not forgive lazy balance. Deschenes’s visible public record begins there, not with a national-team biography.

Anytides With Jackson Doremus

Deschenes’s strongest industry marker is Anytides. Newschoolers published a Two Planker episode in May 2022 titled Behind the Scenes of Anytides with Founders Jackson Doremus and Will Deschenes. That source identifies him as a cofounder beside Jackson Doremus. This matters because it places him in ski culture beyond riding clips. Anytides appears around the same creative street and park world that later supports projects such as Stand Corrected. For a core skier, that role can be as important as a sponsor line: building product, supporting crews, connecting riders and giving the scene another small independent brand language.

Lappin’ At Sugarbush With Ski The East

The 2022 Promised Land & Lappin’ 3.1: Sugarbush episode gave Deschenes a wider East Coast video credit. Prime Skiing’s page describes the crew taking on one of the best parks in the East and laying down mid-winter hammers at Sugarbush. The skier list includes Deschenes with Putnam, Stackhouse, Hoblitzelle, Bechtold, Sellingham, Walsh, Nygard and Mohrman. That cast matters because it connects him to a group of riders who appear repeatedly in Northeast street and park projects. Sugarbush is a logical place for that kind of footage: tight park rhythm, cold snow, rail lines and a regional style shaped by short winters and high repetition.

Stand Corrected And The Keep Standing Crew

Stand Corrected, released in 2024 by Keep Standing with support from Arsenic Anywhere, Foam Brewers, Vishnu Skis, Icelantic Skis, Anytides and Tall Truck, is Deschenes’s clearest recent public appearance. Freeskier called the short a street skiing film from an underrepresented crew and named him among the riders with Daniel Hatheway, Chase Mohrman, Jackson Doremus, Sam Putnam, Matt Stackhouse, Max Gingras, Chris Bechtold, Sawyer Sellingham, Kamil Obaid and Andy Hoblitzelle. Newschoolers’ Arsenic page lists the same lineup and credits Sam Putnam with the edit. The value is collective: heavy street features, creative spots, repeated attempts and a crew strong enough to make every shot feel earned.

Handrails, Wallrides And Long Attempts

Deschenes’s skiing should be described carefully because public sources do not provide a full trick-by-trick archive. The reliable terrain references point toward rails, park, East Coast snow and street filming. That means the useful technical language is specific but restrained: rail slides, switch entries, presses, speed checks, wallride setups, hard landings, flat-down rails and short run-ins. Freeride.cz’s write-up on Stand Corrected described the work behind urban skiing in direct terms: searching for spots, building them and trying again until the clip finally works. Deschenes belongs to that process-driven lane, where the invisible labor around a spot is part of the skiing.

William Deschenes On The FWT Sheet

A Freeride World Tour Qualifier page lists William Deschenes as a United States skier, 27 years old, in Ski Men, with 112 points from the 2020 Stowe IFSA Qualifier and a 22nd-place finish. The public sources do not provide enough context to build a freeride biography around that result, but the listing is still useful. It suggests that the broader Deschenes ski record touches more than one format, even if the strongest public trail remains street and park. Stowe also fits the East Coast map: firm snow, variable winter conditions and terrain where a skier must adapt quickly to what the mountain gives.

The Profile Stays Core

Deschenes earns a 2/5 importance rating because the verified public record is real but narrow. The anchors are Where’s the beef, Anytides cofounder status, Ski The East’s Lappin’ at Sugarbush, Stand Corrected with Keep Standing, and the William Deschenes FWT Qualifier listing. There is no verified Olympic start, X Games medal, World Cup podium, major sponsor athlete biography or headlining film part. The best page angle is precise: Will Deschenes as an East Coast street and park skier whose value sits in crew projects, independent ski culture, Anytides, and the rail-focused footage that keeps the Northeast scene visible.