Ski Mountaineering Through the Backcountry with Eric Carter

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🗓️ 24 September 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Eric Carter is an alpine athlete and endurance coach who discovered the niche sport of ski mountaineering, or "skimo," and never looked back. Skimo involves skiing uphill in the backcountry and riding the slope back down. Eric also founded Ridgeline Athletics, where he helps mountain athletes chase their own wild outdoor adventures.

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0:37.4	You're kind of just hanging on for dear life and trying to ski as fast as you can kind of on the edge of control down these lines.
0:51.0	GEMO turned to be this really cool way of still competing and still using that fitness and all those things that I developed,
0:59.0	but getting to experience them mountains a bit more.
1:05.4	Over a decade ago, Eric Carter fell in love with the mountains
1:09.1	and discovered a niche sport called ski mountaineering or ski mow.
1:13.3	Ski mountaineering is a relatively simple concept.
1:16.3	It basically means skiing uphill in the backcountry
1:19.3	so that you can ride the slope back down,
1:21.7	no chairlift required.
1:23.9	In a few short years, this hobby turned into a profession.
1:27.4	Eric became a top-ranked member of the U.S. National Ski Mountaineering
1:30.8	team, and after a very successful competitive career he retired in
1:35.0	2020. Since then Eric has gone on some epic mountain expeditions around the world.
1:41.4	He also founded a coaching company that trains mountain
1:43.9	athletes to go after their own outdoor adventures. I'm Shelby Stanger and this is
1:49.3	wild ideas worth living, an REI co-op studio's production brought to you by Capital One.
1:57.4	Eric Carter, welcome to Wild Ideas Worth Living all the way from Skrimish, British Columbia. I love it. Yeah, thanks for having me.
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