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Ingrid Backstrom — Pro Freeskier on Ski Movies, Motherhood and Elevating People of Color, Women and Adaptive Athletes
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Ingrid Backstrom is a professional big mountain freeskier, mum and ski Industry Game Changer. Ingrid started skiing at 4. Her parents were on the volunteer ski patrol at Crystal Mountain outside Seattle. They would camp every weekend in the parking lot in their 1954 bookmobile turned RV. Ingrid went on to ski racing when she was 12. After high school she studied at Whitman College in Washington and was on the ski team.
After graduating and with the goal of becoming a ski bum she moved to Squaw Valley, Tahoe and started competing in Freeskiing competitions. She won a freeskiing contest at Crested Butte, Colorado and Matchstick productions crew were in the audience watching. They asked Ingrid to film with them and the rest is history.
Ingrid has had one of the most successful professional ski careers ever winning the 'best female performance' at the Powder Awards 5 times. She has featured in more than 20 ski movies during her career and skied some of the highest mountains on earth in the Himalayas as well as skiing remote first descents in places like China and Greenland.
Tune in to find out how Ingrid feels about the changes in the ski industry over the years, becoming a mum as a professional freeskier, upcoming film projects and loads more!
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You can follow what Ingrid Backstrom is up to on Instagram at ingridbackstrom and check out her latest movie The Approach.
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