Jackson has played more roles in the ski trade than Eskimos have words for snow.

Ski designer, binding and boot product manager, freestyle competitor, bootfitter, lecturer on risk management, ski instructor, marketing director, resort feature writer, ski tester for 30 years and boot tester for 20, OLN and RSN television show host, extreme camp coach, Desperate Measures co-creator, 4X Warren Miller screenwriter, R&D chief, honorary Canadian, college racer, 2X personal therapist to Greg Stump, regular contributor to at least ten different ski magazines, and in his guise as Pontiff of Powder, married Paul Hochman and Carrie Sheinberg in all ways but legally.