How the pro snowboarder and Burton team rider balances motherhood and sending It - October 2019
Kimmy Fasani just baked a loaf of sourdough bread and the smell fills her kitchen. Her one-year-old son, Koa, is playing with toys in the living room while she’s bustling about, readying for a day of splitboarding in the backcountry near her home in Mammoth Lakes, California.
Fasani is one of the most decorated and talented women in snowboarding, but at this moment she’s a mom with a thousand things to do before she gets out the door. She gathers Koa’s stuff—diapers, puffy one-piece suit, backpack, squeezy food pouches—along with her own essentials: the Burton bibs and jacket she helped design, gloves, goggles, helmet, backcountry tools, green smoothie, and Clif bars. As she and her husband, pro skier Chris Benchetler, load up her truck, she doesn’t say goodbye to Koa. Because he’s coming with them.
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