New Hampshire Union Leader 03/19/2024 Extreme skiing. With those two words, others whoosh into focus: No limits. Adrenaline. Adventure. Conquest. The joy of living each moment, senses engaged, making each turn, bump, drop and jump count. Breathing in wind and whiteness, perhaps as far as the eyes can see. But definitely inside your soul. That’s Dan Egan’s life on the …
June 8, 2023, Dan Egan and Eric Wilbur accepted the 2023 Harold Hirsch Award for Excellence in Snowsports Journalism in the Words Category—Books for Thirty Years in a White Haze. This is Egan’s 5th NASJA Harold Hirsch award. He has been honored twice for his video productions, once for his blog at Boston.com during the 2014 Sochi Olympics, and last …
The Boston Globe 02/16/2023 Though he became known for skiing harrowing descents on mountains all over the world, Dan Egan never forgot making his first turns at Canton’s Blue Hills Ski Area. Egan, 59, grew up in Milton with his six siblings. Along with his brother, John, he was honored on Wednesday in a ceremony at the Blue Hills base …
Explore Big Sky 11/14/2022 It is amazing to think about releasing my first book “All-Terrain Skiing” in 1996, as the world was very different then, in both technology and in sport. It was more than a book: it was an interactive program with VHS video, weatherproof flash cards… and the book. And now I’ve updated the program and recently released …
SW Londoner 10/14/2022 Skier and actor Dan Egan visited Kensington this week to promote his new book 30 Years in a White Haze. Egan’s has featured in 12 Warren Miller films, produced his own award-winning films that began in his parents’ attic, written three books, and skied with his brother John along geopolitical landmarks of world history, redefining extreme sport …
05/30/2022 North American Snowsports Journalism Association Announces Hirsch Awards – 2020-21 season winners Dan Egan won the Hirsch Award for a Stand-Alone Article: Finding Our Inner Warren Miller in Mountain Outlaw magazine, Winter 2021 Read the Article here – https://www.mtoutlaw.com/ski-bum/ NASJA Judges said: “This tribute to ski film legend Warren Miller is a finely crafted story that draws the reader …
05/27/2022 North American Snowsports Journalist Association Announces 2022 Mitch Kaplan Award Winner Eric Wilbur, editor of New England Ski Journal and author was awarded the 2022 NASJA Mitch Kaplan Award by the North American Snowsports Journalist Association, in a recent virtual award ceremony. Upon winning the award Wilbur commented, “It’s fun to think about the stories in New England that …
Dan Egan’s autobiography is a colorful inside look at the evolution of “extreme” skiing into what we now call big-mountain free-skiing. Dan was a multi-talented athlete with a good business head. Emerging from a large, devout yet unruly Catholic family, he found success in skiing, soccer, and sailing. But sports, and the related party scenes, interfered with academics. It took …
Read the original article in Explore Big Sky By Bella Butler MANAGING EDITOR Winter Fest is an Outlaw Partners event. Outlaw Partners publishes Explore Big Sky. BIG SKY –In a 1992 ski film shot in Big Sky, Montana native and professional skier Scot Schmidt cuts a line through classic Montana cold smoke powder, the feeling of levitation palpable through the screen. …
Read the original article in the Telluride Daily Planet. If you find tales of living life on the edge enchanting — even if it’s a brand of adventure well beyond your comfort zone — tonight’s talk by extreme skiing pioneer, Dan Egan, at Between the Covers (BTC) will be a vicarious thrill. Egan, who is also hosting a daytime …
Julie Anderson is an award winning non-fiction producer, director, writer and development executive. She is acclaimed for her inspirational insight and storytelling which has ignited programs and documentaries ranging in topics from race relations, education, social issues and sports.
She earned an Academy Award nomination for the documentary God Is The Bigger Elvis, which she produced for HBO Documentary Films. As Director of Documentary Development for HBO her projects included the series America Undercover and the Academy Award winning documentary Big Mama.
A well known sports producer, she developed ESPN’s Emmy award winning magazine shows OUTSIDE THE LINES and E:60. Anderson also co-created the award winning teen educational series Sportsfigures for HBO, which was recognized with several Clarion Awards for Best Children’s Programming, and numerous Parents Choice Awards as well as a regional EMMY Award.
Most recently, as the Executive Producer of Documentary Development at PBS, she executive produced the Emmy, Peabody and Dupont Journalism award winning series The African Americans, Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, as well as Gates’ series Finding Your Roots.
Anderson’s work has regularly appeared on ESPN, HBO Sports, HBO Documentary Films, PBS, CNN, CBS
