Brenna Huckaby Starter Pack: Paralympic Winter Games 2026

Eight years after Brenna Huckaby's archetypal Paralympic Games, the unit is on. She's a highly decorated para snowboarder, with 4 medals crossed 2 Paralympic Games and 10 World Championships. But she doesn't fto the unit get to her. “Win oregon lose, I'm inactive the aforesaid Brenna,” she tells WIRED. “I'm loved. I person an unthinkable family. [Snowboarding] is important, but it's not everything to me.”

That's wherefore Huckaby makes a constituent to support the ambiance light. If Huckaby has a bully time successful training, she wears the aforesaid socks for qualification and racing. If she had a bully contention for those, she'll deterioration them for the adjacent race. “So, sometimes I deterioration soiled socks to compete,” she says. “This past season, though, they've been truly clean, truthful hopefully for the Games I person soiled socks, due to the fact that that means things are going well.”

Beyond her cleanable oregon soiled socks—only clip volition tell—we asked Huckaby what different essentials are keeping her institution astatine Milano Cortina 2026.

Her Skin Savior

Huckaby swears by La Roche-Posay's Triple Repair Moisturizing Cream. Packed with soothing ingredients similar prebiotic thermal water, ceramide-3, shea butter, niacinamide, glycerin, and its patented postbiotic, this pick is simply a occurrence idiosyncratic for dry, rough, oregon delicate skin. It's adjacent backed by the National Eczema Association. “It is the champion aft a agelong time of snow, windburn—whatever you got going on—this volition hole your full life,” Huckaby says. She's besides loyal to the brand's SPF lineup and keeps respective connected dense rotation. “I consciousness similar the sunscreen dealer, due to the fact that radical are ever trying to get some.”

Beauty Sleep

Huckaby packs 2 oculus masks each clip she travels. “I person 1 successful my carry-on and 1 successful my suitcase, conscionable successful lawsuit I hide one,” she says. She doesn't fuss with an oculus disguise astatine home, but erstwhile she's traveling it's a must. Her prime is the Saatva Eye Mask, which has a screen that’s 100 percent mulberry silk (with a polyester fibre fill). The silk is people breathable, hypoallergenic, and temperature-regulating, making it comfy to deterioration year-round. The elastic headband is wrapped successful silk, too, truthful it stays enactment without tugging astatine your hair. It's a tiny but luxe upgrade that helps you autumn dormant faster and enactment dormant longer, particularly erstwhile you're acold from home.

Comfort Food

When she's retired of the country, Huckaby loves to bring a sensation of location with her. “I person a freezer afloat of Almond Joys,” she says, laughing. “I'm a sweet-treat girlie—I have to person a small thing saccharine each night.”

Sweet Dreams

“I'm ace picky astir pillows, and I've forgotten excavation connected excessively galore trips, and it's been miserable,” Huckaby says. Her favourite pillow is Saatva's Latex Pillow, and acknowledgment to her concern with the brand, she doesn't person to hide lug hers from home. The pillow's shredded earthy latex halfway gives it that springy support, truthful your caput and cervix don't descend oregon crane. The removable, machine-washable capable furniture is wrapped successful integrated fabric and stuffed with microdenier fibers, truthful it feels plushy and breathable. It comes successful 2 lofts: a modular 4- to 5-inch enactment for backmost and tummy sleepers, and a higher 6- to 7-inch exemplary for broadside oregon operation sleepers.

Her Journal

Huckaby has the aforesaid meal each day: a hearty vessel of oatmeal with oat bran, flax meal, chia seeds, and peanut food powder. “It doesn't sensation the best, but I cognize that it's going to substance me,” she says. After her nutritious meal, she journals. “Journaling is thing I cannot unrecorded without,” she says, adding that it makes her consciousness astatine bid to person small moments similar these to herself.

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