Tanner Hall

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**Tanner Hall**

Home Mountain	Kalispell, MT USA
Date of Birth	October 26, 1983
Height	5 ft 6 in
Weight	140 lbs.
Ski	Armada
Other Sponsors	Oakley, Dalbello Boots, Grenade Gloves, Giro, Redbull, Park City Resort
Discipline	Half pipe, slopestyle

Tanner Hall (October 26, 1983 – )of Kalispell, Montana is a world renowned X-games medal winning freeskiier. In an attempt at his fourth straight Winter X Games gold in skier slopestyle he was upset by up and comer Charles Gagnier. In April of 2005, Hall was severely injured in an attempt to Switch 900 over the infamous 120 foot Chad's Gap, coming up on the high side of the landing and fracturing both ankles and heel bones.

[edit] Hall's Career Achievements

2006: Wins the award of "Best North American Freeskier", which was previously held by Philippe Côté
2006: 1st US Freeskiing Open - halfpipe, Gold ESPN Winter X Games - halfpipe and Powder Video Awards - Worst Slam and Best Male performance.
2005: Silver Medal ESPN Winter X Games-slopestyle, Silver Medal ESPN Winter X Games-superpipe, 1st US Freeskiing Open-superpipe and 2nd US Freeskiing Open-slopestyle.
2004: Gold Medal ESPN Winter X Games-slopestyle, 1st BMW X3 Freeski Invitational, 1st World Skiing Invitational-halfpipe, 2nd World Superpipe Championships and 2nd US Freeskiing Open-superpipe.
2003: Gold Medal ESPN Winter X Games-slopestyle, Silver Medal ESPN Winter X Games-superpipe, 1st US Freeskiing Open-slopestyle, 1st World Superpipe Championships, 1st Ultimate Bumps&Jumps-big air, 1st Park City All-Stars Rail Jam, 1st West Coast Invitational-jib jam, 2nd World Skiing Invitational-big air, 2nd US Freeskiing Open-big air, 2nd Ultimate Bumps&Jumps-superpipe and 2nd Paul Mitchell Huck & Roll-halfpipe.
2002: Gold Medal ESPN Winter X Games-slopestyle, 1st US Freeskiing Open-slopestyle, 1st World Skiing Invitational -big air, 1st Cham Jam, France-slopestyle, 1st Ultimate Bumps&Jumps-superpipe, 2nd Ultimate Bumps&Jumps-big air, 2nd. Ultimate Bumps&Jumps-moguls and 2nd US Freeskiing Open-big air.
2001: Gold Medal ESPN Winter X Games-big air, Silver Medal Core Xtreme Games-quarterpipe, Silver Medal Core Xtreme Games-big air, 1st Winter X Qualifier-big air and 3rd US Freeskiing Open-slopestyle.

[edit] Trivia

Hall co-founded the freeride ski company Armada Skis with skier JP Auclair. Hall is part of the skiing gang Chronic-Crew along with other professional skiiers and some snowboarders based in the Park City area.

When asked about the C Crew, Tanner replied with this:

"The C Crew started out with me and Mickaël a long time ago, you know what I mean, we always rode with a bunch of good good good people around us and basically figured out it’d be kind of funny to see what happened if we stenciled out some things on our jackets and, you know, made our presence known wherever we went that it was a crew rolling together instead of just an individual showing up at a spot. And I think, you know, our presence was known, you know. We have a lot of people deep right now. Like over here in France you got yourself [Lourent Farve], Mickael and Kugener and JL holding it down, and then it’s like back in the states it’s like ridiculous with all the snowboard crew From the Tech 9, and all the influence that, you know, CR Johnson and just the whole crew, it’s crazy, you know what I mean. Basically what it is, is it’s a bunch of good good friends that just want to ride and have fun"