Jimmy Petterson is an American, educated at the University of Southern California, and graduated cum laude with a Bachelor's degree in history, a Teaching Credential, and a Master's degree in Instruction and Curriculum. He could have spent his life as a teacher, molding young minds and preparing the next generation to take over our world. Instead, to his father's great disappointment and sorrow, he has spent the last thirty years as a ski bum. Jimmy's pursuit of the ultimate ski run and the perfect powder dump has taken him through such jobs as ski instructor, off-piste guide, travel guide, slope-side singer-entertainer, ski-bar owner, hotelkeeper, ski travel arranger, and most recently, ski writer and photographer. He has skied in over 40 different countries during his search for ski nirvana, and his work as been published in thirteen of those lands. Mr. Petterson's

journalistic accomplishments include over 200 published feature articles on the subject of skiing, in which he has described his visits and experiences in such far flung ski destinations as Bolivia, Iceland, Greenland, Turkey, Greece, Lebanon, Morocco, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrghyzstan, Albania, Soviet Georgia, Chile, ndorra, Alaska, India, Slovakia and Poland. He has also written about and photographed many of the more conventional ski areas of the Alps and the Rocky Mountains. Nevertheless, he has created a niche for himself in his coverage of the more odd and unusual ski destinations.

	Will Jimmy's son Erik also be a disappointment to his dad and avoid the ski bum life in favor of a Conventional 9-5 existence?
	The first time in many years when nobody saw Jimmy with an open mouth for an entire day was when the snow was so deep in Davos that he was forced to where this mask for eight hours straight.

Currently, Mr. Petterson is working on combining his many adventures into a coffee table book with the theme and title: Skiing Around the World. (See Preview of the Book, for more details.) When he is not searching the world for obscure ski resorts, he is organizing and hosting conference and incentive trips for companies, and even arranging group holidays for groups of families. Jimmy spends much of each winter in the Alps, and when he is not traveling, he resides in Gothenburg, Sweden.


Jimmy testing a slope for avalanche danger for one of his groups.