Hard to Come By

ONE OF THE LONGEST tenured photographers in Powder history, Wade McKoy has been shooting skiing for 45 years. In the 1970s and ’80s, he was among the first to document the nascent big mountain ski culture growing in the ski bum petri dish of Jackson Hole. Over the years he has photographed such legendary figures as Doug Coombs, Mark Newcomb, Stephen Koch, Rick Armstrong, and Jason Tattersall.

A native of the Deep South, McKoy,