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Podcast: Nature Junkie Radio
Episode: Riding the Edge of the Earth: Pro Snowboarder Elena Hight Shares Insights from the Summit
Description: This interview is a special one to me and I think it will be for you too. In the mid-90s, I was a professional snowboarder. It was such a fun chapter of my life because snowboarding was in a wildly innovative phase. Tricks were getting technical, jumps were getting bigger, handrails were getting longer, curvier, and more kinked. But like most board sports, snowboarding has many dimensions. One of those is backcountry riding. Unlike the super technical trick nature of park and pipe riding, backcountry riding is more of an art form. It’s marked by the creativity of...