Rachel's Connection to the Mountains

Rachel set a goal to finish top 50, but after 57 grueling minutes on the mountain, she crossed the finish line in third place. Rachel had been shy her whole life and her connection with outdoor sports was more personal than social. She bought a cabin in the mountains outside of Valdez and took things a month at a time apart from planning her next ski adventure or mountain traverse. They'd just invent their routes looking at maps and bushwhack their way through the hills. "We were kind of these covert badasses that were pretty low budget"