TPM Episode 360: Ingrid Backstrom, Pro Skier

The Powell Movement

Mike Powell

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4.8 • 824 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2023

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

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

Transcript

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0:00.0	Have a seat on your porcelain throne.
0:02.3	It's time to talk some shit on the Powell movement.
0:13.5	Welcome to the Powell movement.
0:16.9	I'm your host Mike Powell, and this week I'm just home from our 17th round of chemotherapy.
0:22.6	If you're new, know that my wife is sick with stage 4 colon cancer.
0:26.6	It was stage 3, we treated it, but it came back as stage 4.
0:30.6	Scary as shit.
0:31.6	While there is no great news, there is good news.
0:34.6	The chemo has kept the tumors from growing.
0:36.6	We'll continue to do this chemotherapy and then move to radiation. While more. The chemo has kept the tumors from growing. We'll continue to do this chemotherapy
0:38.1	and then move to radiation. While more rounds of chemo sucks, the drugs this time are much
0:43.8	easier for Anne's to live with. No more neuropathy, a miserable side effect where Anne's couldn't drink
0:49.1	cold liquids and the cold really affected her fingers and her toes and she's still numb in her fingers
0:53.8	and her toes a little bit. Her nausea is also a little bit better overall, so that's nice. The negative with
0:59.2	the new medicine is it really affects her skin. It gets really thin and paper-like, and there's all
1:04.3	kinds of rashes and breakouts. While it's not comfortable, it's way better than the first round we did
1:09.3	last year. So that's my cancer update.
1:12.6	And I need to say, thank you so much to all of you who reach out. I get a lot of messages from a lot of
1:17.7	you reaching out to see how Ange is doing, to see if she's feeling better, to see if they can do anything.
1:22.7	And those are all greatly appreciated. It definitely helps my spirits and and I let Ang know about them as well, so thank you
1:28.1	so much for that. Hopefully, these updates keep all of you in the loop. It is really nice to share a
1:33.2	positive update for the first time and a long time. What's also nice is my guest this week,
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