Today, Pete’s trying to turn off his firehose of obligations so we can go surf. It takes him till noon. That’s when we meet at his house in a field a few steps from a high bluff overlooking the Strait of Juan de Fuca. There’s a nearly done skate bowl just off the driveway, about to be poured. That’ll happen in a few days. Today, we’ll load up his well-travelled 2000 Ford van and make the winding drive to the coast to surf a favorite beach break. It’ll be empty, chest-high, foggy and fun.

Pete runs with the energy of a lifelong board-riding addict. He still rips—in 2016, he took home gold duct tape in the Grand Masters divi-sion of the Mt. Baker Legendary Banked Slalom. Catch him in the wateror on the hill, and you’ll see that energy in play, a flow that never ends. Surf, snow and skate are part of his daily routine, interwoven with the myriad responsibilities of running a business and raising a family. He and Annette live a fully integrated lifestyle driven by board sports, one that allows them to stay in the kitchen when it comes to cooking up market-friendly passion projects and maintaining an extended work/play family of folks dedicated to expanding the horizon of snow-sliding and beyond.

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