Being born in Vermont doesn't automatically make someone a maple syrup expert, but helping build a family syrup business certainly does, and so Olympian Ryan Cochran-Siegle is an expert at three things: syrup, skiing and the pain that often comes with crashing.
I'm Ryan Cochran Siegle, alpine skiing and I'm from Starks pro Vermont, Ryan Cochran Siegle is in the second place. So we know you're pretty knowledgeable about maple syrup and we're gonna test that knowledge. I put maple syrup on everything. Oh yeah, this is just the yeah store brand, that's not even maple syrup, I don't think whereas this, I mean I, you can see like nice color, you know, see through it, it just adds like such a strong maple flavor. At the very beginning, my grandparents had a lot of land in Richmond we want. And so my cousins started building a sugar bush sugar house, the whole production. So my connection is on their, um, their labor where I do all the hardware. I don't have tattoos, but I have a lot of scars. So that's kind of my, like my own calling, right? My newest scar is this guy like fractured my neck kind of got twisted up head first and I was pretty fortunate to be still and relatively intact. There definitely situations where you add risk, kind of recognizing how that balance is, trying to always keep that in the forefront of the mind when partaking in a sport that can be so dangerous. A Ryan Cochran Siegle in the first place. What is it about your sport that you love so much that makes you want to accept those risks. I think it's finding that fluid state, being able to do something that hardly anyone else can do, its freedom and I get to be who I am, just naturally and that's what's so thrilling about it
