Jason found his passion in paddling at a young age and traveled around the globe as a professional kayaker. At 16 he won the 2009 Freestyle Kayaking World Championships in Thun, Switzerland. On March 20, 2011 while out running a 30 foot waterfall, he landed on a submerged rock and shattered his sacrum, burst fractured of his L-4 and L-5 vertebrae, and suffered neurological compression and severage. Now he is working hard to hike out of the Zambezi, ski powder, boulder in Bishop, and run the high Sierra multi-day classics once again.