When I think about Stef I can’t help but smile. You’d be hard pushed to find a funnier, cheekier and all round force of nature, than the boy Gallagher. 
He made so many people smile…….and laugh! Literally laugh until they were on the floor. I still remember waiting for him to pick us up from the apartment in France we were staying in and seeing a white transit van lying sideways on the road half way up a snow covered mountain. I definitely remember Stef standing on top of it like he was surfing an actual transit…..and laughing his tits off I may add. Everything was an adventure to him. He was generous with his hospitality and always made us feel like we were living our best lives when we stayed with him. 


Stef was the person who could hold court in a room full of people (all being complete polar opposites I may add) and make them laugh until they cried. 
I’m thinking back to the lodge and the most random people, and how much it just worked because of him. Both Jason and Stef played a defining part in my life. I was 17 and booked my first ever snowboard lesson. I was so desperate to be cool and those two were just the coolest guys. Their friendship made Whickham Thorns what is was. We literally lived and breathed snowboarding back then and they both gave the place the kind of vibe where you could kick back and just have a laugh. Stef’s adventurous life took him away but he was the kind of person you were just happy you knew, even if it was just for a short while.