Ingrid Backstrom Dishes on Summer Shredding + Cottage Cheese
Do you long for an endless winter? If you’ve reluctantly hung up your planks or boards for the season, and are reminiscing about bluebird days of shredding with friends, a trip to the Southern hemisphere might be in order.
Here, WomensMovement checks in with one of our fav ladies, Ingrid Backstrom, to get the 411 on what makes summer skiing—and doing so in Chile—so rad. She also shares the best ski stops for both beginners and more advanced skiers. Oh, and that tip on post-workout cottage cheese.
If you’re inclined to pack up that ski bag and head south, check out Ingrid’s 8-day PowderQuest Women’s Ski Camp, ranked as one of the best ski camps for women by Teton Gravity Research and awarded the Top Summer Ski Camp in 2014 by Warren Miller Entertainment (see camp video below). This exclusive freeride ski camp is designed for advanced intermediate to advanced female skiers.
Attendees learn about off-piste and backcountry exploring and safety while improving their skills and discovering how to ski the mountains in an all-mountain, freeride mentality, along with morning yoga. Bonus: This year’s camp also features instruction by SheJumps co-founder Claire Smallwood.
WM: What are the best 2 reasons to ski in the summer?
Ingrid Backstrom: The two best reasons to ski in the summer in my opinion are the beauty of the Andes, and the cultural experience of skiing in South America. It’s one of the coolest ways to experience skiing—there’s travel, new people, new challenges, so much amazing scenery, and generally some really good skiing as a bonus.
WM: What makes Chile skiing so darned good?
Ingrid Backstrom: I like Chile because of the people and the pace of life there. They are so hospitable, always going out of their way to make sure you feel welcome. Rushing around and stressing out don’t really factor into the Chilean equation—connecting with friends and family is more important. It helps knock me out of my patterns and connect with the quality of the skiing, and helps me appreciate each turn or each step of a hike.
Ingrid Backstrom in La Parva, Chile. Photo: Adam Clark
WM: Best skiing resorts in Chile for beginners?
Ingrid Backstrom: I think it depends on what you are looking for–resorts off the beaten path offer more culture and less infrastructure of the type that North American and European skiers are accustomed to, but can have amazing skiing and less crowds in addition to being less costly. Nevados de Chillan is awesome for culture and skiing, like a real Chilean ski town, and has miles of beginner terrain and some interesting, funky, or fancy places to stay. And Portillo has fast lifts, great amenities, and a great ski school/support for beginners, but less beginner terrain.
WM: Best resorts there for intermediate + advanced?
Ingrid Backstrom: If you like to hike, then both Portillo and Nevados de Chillan have awesome lift-accessed hiking and touring as well as good in-bounds terrain. La Parva has good grooming and more adventurous hikes. They each offer a different experience off the mountain, so check out some pictures and videos online if you can to see which one looks the most interesting to you.
Some resorts are more of a packaged deal—meals and lodging and tickets included; whereas other places you can get groceries and cook, or be more on your own. It also depends on timing, whether you’re willing to travel a bit farther and see more country or just want to spend all your time skiing. Resorts close to Santiago (Portillo, La Parva) are pretty quick to get to and are all in the alpine (higher altitudes, no trees), but they can have less snow depending on the year. Nevados de Chillan is further south, they typically get more snow, and you’re skiing on volcanoes with some tree skiing. I couldn’t pick a favorite! They all are very cool for different reasons.
Ingrid Backstrom in La Parva, Chile. Photo: Adam Clark
WM: Favorite post-skiing recovery nutrition?
Ingrid Backstrom: I’m usually starving after a day of skiing, even when I eat lunch. I’ve realized a lot of it is that I’m just so thirsty; it’s hard to stay caught up on water on winter days when it’s cold out. So I try to have a few glasses of water or a few cups of tea (before the occasional apres-ski beer if I’m having one) and then some cheese and crackers, or an apple with peanut butter, or chips and some good guacamole, or a bowl of soup.
If we’ve really had a big day of backcountry skiing, the favorite treat (this may sound gross but I swear it’s good) is kettle potato chips with cottage cheese for dipping. A snack that’s a balance of everything but that has some salt to aid re-hydration usually always tastes and feels the best for me.
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About Erinn Morgan
After a 10-year career as an award-winning New York City-based editor launching and redesigning urban, style-driven magazines, Erinn Morgan left her downtown Manhattan digs after September 11th, 2001, in search of a less encumbered, freelance lifestyle. A life-changing, two-year-long trek around the country in a motorhome eventually landed her in Durango, Colo., which she now calls home. Her writing has appeared in numerous— More about this author →
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