Jeremy Jones Has Passed The Torch

It happened last winter.

Jeremy Jones was lapping Palisades' KT-22 lift with his son, Cass, and his daughter, Mia. It was something they’d done time and time again, but his vantage point was a little bit different.

“I'm like, you are definitively faster, and now I am officially in the back, with both my kids having to wait for me,” he told me in an interview toward the end of last season. “(Cass) started being closer on my tail, and then one day…we come over The Nose…and he literally passes me in the air and runs off. It was like, boom. Changing of the guard, right there.”

“From that point on, it’s like, alright, I guess I’m following you from here on out.”

That family dynamic has been a part of several Teton Gravity Research Projects, and in the spring of 2025, Jones released the film Twilight of Adolescence, in which he and Mia bag some peaks during a splitboarding trip to the High Sierras for one last time before she headed off to college across the country.

Then came their segment in Pressure Drop. It starts in the purest, way possible: with  Jeremy, Cass, and Mia hiking through knee-deep snow, snowboards strapped to their backs. Cass kicks up snow, right into Mia’s face. A classic older brother move that he swears he doesn't remember whether or not it was intentional.

“Cass, why do you have to do this? We’re trying to get clips,” Mia says, her voice dripping with the kind of frustration that you can only truly understand if you have a younger sibling.

Even when you’re snowboarding’s First Family, you aren’t immune to some sibling rivalry.

“That was so funny,” Mia said in an interview. “It kind of sums it up right there. That's kind of what it's like filming with Cass. I'm glad it was caught on camera.”

“I can't remember if I was actually trying to, like, piss off Mia, or if it was genuinely an accident,” Cass said. “But yeah, it was a very, very real moment. It was pretty funny to watch on screen.”

The trio was headed to Tahoe’s Grizzly Spin, which Jeremy first ascended in 2005. That was his ender for the Standard Films movie Paradox. Cass stepped up to ride it. Mia happened to come home for spring break and got lucky enough to have a perfect three-day weather window, so she tagged along for what ended up being the biggest backcountry trip she had ever done in her life. It was also the first time that Cass was old enough to push himself snowboarding. He knew of Jeremy’s first ascents when he was growing up, but he even admits that he might not have fully appreciated how rad they were.

“My whole life, basically, it was just like, he was hitting first descents. So it was like, Oh, maybe that's what all dads do, something like that,” Cass said.

Once Cass got to the base of Grizzly Spine, he realized just how tough it would be to ride, despite watching the clip of his dad’s first descent on it so many times. Mia remembers Cass frothing to get up there and hit it. Cass remembers being a lot more nervous than he might have let on. Eventually, though, he felt super locked-in, like there were no other distractions in the world that could take his focus off the line at hand.

“I was honestly pretty gripped,” he said. “Walking up, it was kind of mellow. Getting to the top, the rollover is just crazy, and knowing what’s below you, you really don’t want to mess up. Getting that first turn is so crucial. But it was definitely a state that I probably have never achieved, where I could feel everything.”

It’s a beautiful segment that is filled with big airs, narrow chutes, and plenty of powder slashes. Mia, Cass, and Jeremy all ride the gnarliest lines with what appears to be effortless style. It also makes the viewer feel like they’re watching history being made, when you realize that each Jones is the closest to the other’s ability levels as they’ve ever been in their life.

Jeremy tells the audience that he definitely sees elements of himself in his two children’s riding styles. That might be the understatement of the decade. From the drone footage high above the mountains, they look nearly identical. Some of that is intentional. Cass says that small nuances like hand placements have been repeatedly drilled home through instruction.

Other things, like deciding when to make the perfect turn, come from years of closely following Dad down the mountain.

“I think the whole experience was totally new compared to anything that I'd done before, but it was so much fun, and it was honestly incredible,” Mia said. “And there was no one else that I would rather be out there with than my dad and my brother, because they're kind of my main riding partners.”

Don’t just take my word for it, listen to the folks over at the International Freesports Film Festival. Both Cass and Mia were nominated for the honor of 2025 Breakout Snowboarder of the Year, and Cass emerged with the win.

Of course, Cass was with the entire Jones family when he got the news that he had won. The Jones family was in Porto, Portugal, getting ready to do some surfing before the winter kicked in.