Red Gerard, and family, ready for next step in their Olympic journey

Jen Gerard still remembers when, for her family and her son Red Gerard in particular, the Olympics weren’t yet the Olympics. It was right around Christmas 2017. Red had already qualified for the 2018 Winter Olympics, set for the ensuing February in PyeongChang, South Korea, but wasn’t set to leave for more than a month. He was set on snowboarding in the backcountry, not necessarily preparing for his two events, snowboard big air and, his signature event, snowboard slopestyle. Jen and her husband Conrad, Red’s parents, were concerned. They called Red, just 17 years old at the time, and arranged to sit down with him at a coffee shop near their home in Silverthorne. “We...