Kip Griffin, Loon Freestyle Director
Kip was a nine year member of the US Ski Team and competed on the World Cup for eight seasons, notching multiple wins against the world's best.  He's a freestyler at heart.  Whether shredding a zipper line or floating 40-foot helicopters, Kip brings his 'A' game to the hill every day.  Kip's ski career has taken him all over the world, but he always comes back to Loon.

In real life, Kip is Vice President of Sales for a medical device company, husband, and father of two, living in southern New Hampshire.

Andy Horvitz
Andy is a former Loon Freestyle team member whose Loon Freestyle career spans twenty years as a competitor and coach.  He's an old school freestyler who loves skiing bumps.  Expect to see Andy on the hill mid-week on powder days.  A perennial competitor at Sunday River's Bust 'n Burn Mogul competition, Andy is actually looking forward to moving into his new age group in 2008.

When he's not skiing, Andy is a Sales Director with an internet media and technology company, living in the Boston area.




Aaron Finley
Aaron is a Loon Freestyle veteran and a true all around skier.  Aaron is as comfortable and smooth skiing Tuckerman's Ravine as he is the Loon Mountain Park.  A true ice-coaster and ski mountaineer, Aaron spends his winters hiking and ripping the best lines the White Mountains have to offer.

Aaron is a USSCA Level II Certified Freestyle Coach

Aaron lives in the White Mountains where he works in elementary education.



Andy Kaplan
Andy brings with him over 20 years of coaching experience and has been involved with the Loon Freestyle Team longer than anyone.  He has competed in local, regional and national competitions; winning several mogul events.  He was a ski model for Ski, Skiing, and Travel and Leisure magazines, Jackson Hole Ski Resort, and Blizzard ski equipment.  Andy is among the best mogul skiers in the East and proves it annually by dominating his age group at Sunday River's Bust 'n Burn mogul competition.

Andy resides in New Hampshire, where he works as a high school science teacher.

Craig Cody
Craig is a Freestyle coach specializing in moguls and aerials. When asked for his bio, he was quoted as saying, "I'd rather be skiing."

Josh Cohen
At the age of six, Josh Cohen began his skiing career in the winter of 1987-88 at Loon Mountain.  Years later, he found himself on the Freestyle Team, where he was taught how to straight-line mogul courses and out-jump terrain park table-tops.  His best year of mogul competition was his first year of college, when he proved himself to be the best mogul skier at the perennial skiing powerhouse Yale University.  The next year he decided to give up competitive skiing for the higher profile sport of ultimate frisbee, at which he continues to excel. The winter after his college graduation found Josh teaching skiing at Jackson Hole, Wyoming.  Pining for his hometown, Josh returned to the Boston area, where he currently works in the real estate industry and resides in Somerville.

Liz Kaplan
Liz Kaplan has been skiing at Loon Mountain for 17 years and was on the Freestyle team for much of that time.  She is an avid skier and loves skiing moguls.

Liz is a senior at Colby College in Waterville, Maine.







Mike Saitow
Mike is an avid outdoors enthusiast. His interests include rock and ice climbing, surfing, mountaineering, mountain biking, hiking, sailing, kayaking, and, of course, freestyle skiing. Mike competed for the Loon Freestyle team and was on the competition circuit for 6 years. He comes to us after spending the last several years in Colorado and Lake Tahoe, California.