Will Penrose

North Vancouver, Canada | Active public archive: 2018-present | Known for: CHEF films, park skiing, street clips, Grouse Mountain sessions | Current: Surface Skis rider

Grouse Rails Above The City

The park at Grouse Mountain sits above Vancouver with city lights below and wet coastal snow often changing by the hour. Will Penrose’s public ski identity belongs to that terrain: short inruns, metal features, filmed laps, friends behind the camera, and a North Shore crew language built around repetition rather than contest announcements.

Penrose is not documented as a major FIS or X Games competitor. His strongest archive sits in crew films, Surface Skis clips, Newschoolers uploads, and Canadian park footage. Surface Skis lists him with a North Vancouver, British Columbia hometown and Grouse Mountain as his resort. That gives the profile a clear base: a Canadian park and street skier shaped by the North Shore, CHEF edits, and a film-first freeski environment.

North Vancouver As The Starting Point

Surface Skis gives the cleanest verified biographical frame for Penrose: Instagram handle @will.penrose, date of birth listed as 01/07/00, hometown North Vancouver, BC, and resort Grouse Mountain. That location matters because North Vancouver skiing is compressed and practical. Grouse Mountain and nearby Seymour offer night laps, storm riding, park sessions, and the kind of small-feature repetition that builds rail control.

Penrose’s archive does not present him as a national-team slopestyle skier. It presents him as a rider who grew inside a local filming culture. The North Shore gives that culture a specific texture: rain-snow transitions, quick access from the city, spring park windows, and crews that can film after work, after school, or whenever the mountain holds enough snow for another lap.

CHEF Films And The Crew Record

The clearest long-term thread around Penrose is CHEF, the crew whose Newschoolers video page repeatedly lists him across projects. In PARADISE (2019), CHEF described a short film built mostly at Grouse from January to May 2019, with Penrose included among the skiers. That early credit places him inside the crew before the later, more visible street and park edits.

CHEF listings then show him in a run of projects through the 2020s: Back to Formula (2021) at Grouse parks, I’ll be back (2022) with North Vancouver and Mount Seymour locations, Exit Strategy (2023), fool me twice (2024), Barbosa (2025), and Third Party (2025). Those credits matter because they show continuity. Penrose was not a one-edit name; he kept appearing in the same film ecosystem over multiple seasons.

Third Party And The 2025 Street Movie Marker

Third Party is the strongest recent CHEF marker. Newschoolers lists the film as an October 2025 upload featuring Alex Thucydides, Jarl Whist, Chase Ujejski, Steven Kahnert, Anders Ujejski, Will Penrose, Aidan Mani, Stephen Lindsay-Ross, Adam Kuch, Floyd Guy, and Alec Henderson. Prime Skiing also tagged the project as Third Party – CHEF Street Movie 2025.

That framing pushes Penrose more toward street and crew skiing than standard resort park content. A street movie changes how a skier is judged. The features are less controlled, the snow is moved by hand, and the runout may be tight or rough. What matters is speed choice, edge pressure, rail commitment, body position, and whether the trick fits the spot rather than simply counting rotations.

Surface Skis And A Rider-Driven Setup

Surface Skis gives Penrose his clearest equipment connection. The brand’s rider page identifies him directly, and recent Surface posts place him in Whistler and brand clips. For a skier in Penrose’s lane, the sponsor fit is logical: Surface has long sat close to park, street, creative resort skiing, and small-crew video culture.

The exact ski model should stay unforced unless a current page confirms it clearly. The broader equipment reading is safer: Penrose’s footage needs a durable twin-tip setup, enough flex for presses and butters, edges that can survive rails, and a shape comfortable across park jumps, side hits, and street features. His skiing is less about alpine speed and more about controlled contact with metal, snow piles, and quick landings.

Woodward Copper With The Surface Crew

Penrose’s archive also reaches beyond the North Shore. Freeskier’s 2026 coverage of Surface Skis at Woodward Copper lists Mike Kennedy, Jordan Cooper, Adrian Dipietra, Tommy DeJager, and Will Penrose in a Week One summer camp video edited by Jack Benziger. That setting gives the profile a different type of park context: high-volume summer training, repeatable features, and a brand crew moving through Colorado snow outside the main winter calendar.

Woodward Copper is useful because it shows Penrose in a structured progression environment rather than only local crew edits. The terrain is built for repetition, but it still rewards the same traits visible in his CHEF archive: clean rail entries, compact landings, switch comfort, and the ability to make a short feature line read well on camera.

Whistler Parks And The Coastal Spring Line

Surface clips have also placed Penrose at Whistler-Blackcomb, including Whistler Parks references from 2026. That link fits the larger British Columbia freestyle map. A North Vancouver skier can use Grouse for local repetition, Mount Seymour for crew sessions, Whistler for larger park builds, and spring windows for clips that need more space than a small local hill provides.

Whistler changes the scale without changing the core identity. Penrose’s documented skiing still reads as park and street first: rails, switch approaches, presses, nose and tail control, and tricks shaped for a camera. The bigger resort simply gives him more features, more speed options, and a broader crew environment.

How Penrose’s Skiing Reads On Film

Based on the available archive, Penrose’s skiing is best described as modern Canadian park-and-street jibbing. The important details are not only trick names. They are how he enters a rail, whether he keeps shoulders quiet, how he manages speed into short landings, and how a clip connects with the rhythm of a crew edit.

CHEF’s repeated inclusion of Penrose also suggests trust inside the group. In crew films, a rider’s value comes from more than landing a single trick. He has to show up, help shape spots, film others, travel with the group, and produce enough usable footage to fit the edit. Newschoolers credits on projects like Barbosa also list additional filming by Will, which shows that he is part of the production side as well as the skiing side.

Where The Archive Belongs

Penrose should be filed as a Canadian park and street skier with a strong crew-video footprint rather than a contest-dominant athlete. The strongest tags are North Vancouver, Grouse Mountain, Mount Seymour, Whistler Parks, CHEF, Surface Skis, Woodward Copper, Third Party, Barbosa, street skiing, park skiing, rails, and creative jib.

The current endpoint is precise: Surface Skis rider page, CHEF film credits from 2019 through 2026, Third Party in 2025, Barbosa in 2025, and Surface’s 2026 Woodward Copper crew video. Future updates should track new CHEF releases, Surface Skis team edits, and any verified solo part that gives Penrose a more defined individual archive beyond the crew-film frame.