Welcome to the Blister podcast, a program dedicated to interesting people, the great outdoors,

and a bunch of other stuff we like. I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, the founder of Blister, and you can

check out everything we're doing and reviewing over at BlisterReview.com. Wendy Fisher is one of the all-time greats.

She is a two-time world extreme skiing champion, was on the U.S. ski team, and she's an

Olympian.

She filmed with Warren Miller and Matchstick Productions, and she played a huge role in showing

the world what women could do in

big mountain arenas. I spoke to Wendy about all of this and more, including a few fantastic

Shane McConkey and Seth Morrison anecdotes, in our latest Blister speaker series at Western

Colorado University, and I think that there are dozens

of important takeaways from Wendy's experience and stories that we all can benefit from.

One more thing, we opened the evening at Western by showing a short film of Wendy tearing it up in the mountains,

and you can head over to the

show notes of this episode on the Blister website to see that footage and the Solomon TV

episode that you'll hear Wendy reference in our conversation.

Plus you should go watch the short film just to see some of the most gorgeous and powerful turns ever to be put down on

big lines. So check out that film on our site, and please enjoy this conversation with the great

Wendy Fisher. Wendy, we're happy to have you here and would love to have you come up.

Thank you.

Thank you guys to come in.

I want to just kind of go through this trajectory of yours because it's a very interesting one.

So let's start with where you grew up. I grew up in Lake Tahoe and was part of the

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