Powder: Just How Obsessed is Cody Townsend With Skiing the 50 Classics?
By Megan Michelson — Wearing a goofy grin and an electric-blue shirt printed with rollerblades and palm trees, Cody Townsend skis off the top of California’s 14,162-foot Mount Shasta. He’s laughing now—on a clear, windless day in early June, surrounded by friends—but this line, a 7,300-foot slog up the volcano’s Avalanche Gulch route has been the easiest, least technical peak he’s skied all season.