Joe Kusumoto, US Ski & Snowboard/contributed Tyler Burdick of Salt Lake City competes in a Para snowboarding event at Copper Mountain. Burdick, whose feet were injured when bomb exploded under his truck when he was serving with a Marines troop in Afghanistan in 2010, competed in snowboardcross as a standing athlete in the 2014 Paralympics. He returns to the Winter Games in Beijing as a below-the-knee amputee and will compete in men's banked slalom in the SB-LL1 class.
Julie left the beach of Santa Cruz, Calif., where she worked for 17 years, for the mountains of Salt Lake City in 2019. She has covered the NBA Finals, the Super Bowl, the World Series, the Maverick's big wave surf contest and two Olympics. A Colorado native, she enjoys creating her own adventure, occasionally with her husband and two kids in tow.