Alpenglow's Virtual Winter Speaker Series 2020/21

Alpenglow's Virtual Winter Speaker Series 2020/21

Meet the talented athletes of North Lake Tahoe at the 15th Annual Alpenglow Winter Speaker Series! Get inspired this winter hearing what motivates your favorite athletes and keeps them coming back to the mountains they love! Alpenglow's inspirational speaker series is FREE with all shows live streaming straight to your home! There's even a raffle giving away over $10,000 in epic outdoor gear!

Adventure storytelling takes center stage with local ski mountaineer Cody Townsend speaking on December 3! He's on a mission to ski the 50 most challenging, beautiful and classic backcountry ski lines in North America in his webisode project "The Best Three So Far: Stories Behind The Fifty Project". Townsend takes voyerists behind the scenes of ski descents on the Grand Teton to the highest peak in North America, the 20,308 ft Denali! Register online and tune in at 7pm with thousands of adventure enthusiasts from all over the states. Raffle ticket winners will be announced during the show, and you even have the option to donate to local, non-profit organizations!

More Inspirational Speakers!

Extreme skiing icon, Angel Collinson, shares funny childhood stories and her evolution in becoming an extreme skier at Utah's Snowboard Resort on January 7! She's the first woman to win Powder Magazine's "Best Line" award and her ski descents are some of the most extreme ever captured on film! Hear Ingrid Backstrom on February 4 talk about her show "Little Big Mountain Skiing" depicting her best trips and ski lines and how she navigates her ski career with becoming a mother.

Vasu Sojitra speaks about reclaiming disability in the outdoors and explains Ninja sticking on February 25! He's one of the top adaptive ski athletes in the world skiing with just one leg, an amputation that occurred when he was just 9 years old! He's coined his approach to making the outdoors accessible to all as Ninja sticking and takes viewers on a journey of how breaking down stigmas transforms the way we view outdoor spaces.