Keep it Fun With Your Hands up with Kim Beekman
Welcome back to the Next Level Skiing podcast, brought to you by Wagner Skis!\xa0\xa0
A few years ago I got to join Kim Beekman on a ski trip to the San Juans. We skied at and around Telluride and all over Red Mountain Pass. I don\u2019t think she ever wondered why everyone always wanted to ski those backcountry lines before her. It was because we all wanted to get down and watch her ski.\xa0\xa0
Few ski with more grace, ease, and power than Kim. She is a flawless skier. And an incredible writer. As the editor at Skiing and a longtime ski journalist, she has shepherded years of ski reviews, charting the evolution of ski design for decades. She\u2019s raised an amazing daughter who rips and has all sorts of insights into making the most of our time on snow. Tune in and learn from a master.\xa0\xa0
Thanks for listening to Next Level Skiing.
Topics:\xa0
3:40 Growing up chasing her older brother\xa0
2:50 The secret sauce of being a good skier: having a ripping older sibling\xa0
3:55 Honing her writing chops at the Jackson Hole Guide in the 1990s\xa0
6:36 What makes a good ski story?\xa0
7:50 Her new children\u2019s book about Hilaree Nelson\xa0
11:10 The emergence of rocker and shape in skis\xa0
18:30 Her favorite ski designs\xa0
21:50 Raising young rippers. Candy bribery.\xa0
26:00 When ski skills spill over into life\xa0
30:30 Hands up!\xa0
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Kimberly Beekman\xa0