Ingrid Backstrom ushered in a new era of women’s big mountain skiing when her award-winning segment in Matchstick Productions’ “Yearbook” set the ski world on fire. While she was her high school valediction, Ingrid parlayed her academic scholarship into a life-changing time on the Whitman ski team. Then she graduated, dropped out of the real world, moved to Palisades, and became one of the faces of skiing in the 2000’s. It’s part 1 of an incredible story, and Jessica Sobolowski-Quinn asks the Inappropriate Questions.

Ingrid Backstrom Show Notes:

3:00: String of bad luck for the ages, Crystal Mountain, keeping busy all the time, high school, and college scholarship and ski team

20:30: Stanley: Get up 60% off at Stanley1913.com

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23:30: Challenges of college, ski culture, summer skiing, quitting the real world, contests, sponsorship, and FWT Palisades 2009

41:00: Peter Glenn Ski and Sports: Over 60 years of getting you out there.

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43:00: Losing her passport, US Extremes, Matchstick, McConkey, Bella Coola, pressure, fear,

67:00: Inappropriate Questions with Jessica Sobolowski-Quinn