Words & Video by Blake Alty

Mitchell Davern is a well known grom around Snowplanet and Cardrona with his mad skills on a board and his funny personality. I caught up with him last week and did some filming and riding up at Cardrona under the sunny skies.

Name: Mitchell Davern

Age: 12

Whats your local mountain?
Snowplanet aka The Fridge

Whats your favourite trick ?
Wildcat Indy

Hoodie or jacket riding?
Hoodie

Wheres your summer shred spot?
Mammoth Mountian, California.

On your ipod, what are the first 5 songs that play on shuffle?
Iron Maiden – Phantom Of Opera, Disappears – Repilacte, Iron Maiden – Transylvania, Dropkick Murphy’s – Johnny, I  hardly knew ya, Iron Maiden – Where Eagles Dare.

Who do you look up to in snowboarding?
Torstein Horgmo, Nils Mindich, Ethan Morgan.

Slow chairlifts with soft seats or fast chairlifts with hard seats?
Slow chairlifts with soft seats.

What’s your favourite thing to do apart from snowboarding?
Trampolining, Hanging out with friends and Wake Boarding.

Favourite food?
Prawn Dumplings.

What are your hopes for snowboarding in the future?
At the moment I want to become A professional snowboarder for slope style and compete in x games when I am older and hopefully maybe Olympics. But since I am only twelve i guess that may change in the future.

What is your best competition result?
2013 NZ Nationals 1st overall