Timeline: Dan Treadway

This story originally ran in the October 2008 issue of Freeskier (V11.2).

November 15, 1976
Just as winter sets in, Daniel Treadway is born in the chilly environment of Kenora, Ontario.

Photo: Chris O’Connell

Winter, 1994
Lured by the snow and the mountains, Dan sets off to the West, landing in Silver Star, BC. A year later, at 19, he takes up residence in the granddaddy of them all, Whistler, BC. "Dan was so excited," recalls his brother Dave. "This is what he"™d been waiting for his whole life… to move to the mountains and ski every day."

Photo: Chris O’Connell

1997
K2 gives Dan his first pair of skis and he is featured in his first published photo. He begins to think this could lead to something bigger. "He was pretty humble," says Dave. "I remember seeing his first picture in Freeze, where he was just standing beside some guy at a heli pad, and I was like, "˜Wow, my bro is a pro skier!"™ I hated it because he wouldn"™t even tell me when he had a picture taken in a magazine. I"™d have to go find them."

Photo: Damian Cromwell

Fall, 1999
Poor Boyz Productions releases 13 and with it, introduces Dan to the movie-going masses with his first movie segment.

Photo: Damian Cromwell

February, 2001
Big-Air Dan lands his fi rst cover on the February 2001 issue of Powder. "That first cover is still my proudest moment," Dan recalls.

Photo: Bryn Hughes

2001 "“ present
Dan has accumulated, by his last count, 42 covers, the last being a Chris O"™Connell shot on the latest cover of Powder Hound, Australia"™s main ski rag.

Photo: Damian Cromwell