A Two Track Mind by Ingrid Backstrom

A Two Track Mind by Ingrid Backstrom

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June 2025

A Sphinx-Like State of Mind
In April, 2014, I got invited to ski for a Warren Miller film in Cordova, Alaska, at Points North Heli, which is where I had met my husband two years…
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Perfection is Subjection
En route home from a trip this past winter teaching avalanche classes, I waited bleary-eyed outside a dark Starbucks at the airport in Anchorage at…
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You Could Be Late, Or You Could Be A Tidsoptimist
Many years ago, as we were late and hustling to get out of my brother’s house to attend a friend’s wedding for which I had volunteered to make 300-plus…
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Getting Called Out
Once, many years ago, I was in line early season at KT-22 at Palisades, eagerly anticipating the opening day of my favorite ski lift of all time.
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May 2025

Not THAT Question Again
The question I’ve been asked by far the most in interviews about my skiing over the past 23 years is, “What’s it like being a woman in a male-dominated…
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Too Much Of A Good Thing...
Makes for a Tough Spring
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Changes in Latitude, Changes in Attitude
For ten years, I lived a few blocks from the base of Palisades, and my springtime was a gentle comedown.
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April 2025

March 2025

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