Risk vs. Reward: Taming the Backcountry with Ski Mountaineer Caroline Gleich

Caroline Gleich is a magnet for adventure.  She is one of the ski mountaineering world's most prolific skiers.  She has been on the cover of many skiing magazines, premiered in Warren Miller films, and skied some of the most challenging lines around the world. Most notable and recent was that she was the 4th person ever and first woman to ski all 90 lines in the Chuting Gallery in the Wasatch Range.  Caroline will be the first to say, "Ski Mountaineering is really dangerous."  She is also an environmental activist.

Backcountry skiing is so much more than being a skilled skier.  You have to have intuition; when to summit and when not to ski. When to push past the shaky heart in the throat fear and when to listen to it.  So why does she do it? 

This podcast is about so much more than just adventures and how to decide what to do when faced with a challenge.  It's about how to stand up to cyber bullies, it's about gender equality, what it's really like to be an endurance athlete and how isolating that can be, and it's about what it really means to be brave. 

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Watch Caroline's documentary with REI and read more about it here. 

Topics Discussed in the Podcast  Her journey to becoming a ski mountaineer How to know when to turn back and manage fear and danger Caroline's challenges with cyber bullying How Caroline makes a living as a professional athlete and the path to becoming a sponsored athlete Gender bias and what it's like to be a female skier  What it's like to be a 5 ft tall Ski Mountaineer

Links Caroline's Instagram Carolines Website My Facebook Group: Plant-Powered Tribe The Hoodie I designed with Primal

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