ski like a girl & Shannon Bahrke: Pink, Silver, & now Bronze

Pink, Silver, and Now Bronze: Shannon Bahrke

February 13th, American moguls skier Shannon Bahrke added an Olympic bronze medal to her resume. She already had a silver from the 2002 Olympics. Bahrke has been a member of the US Ski Team for at least 12 years, and plans to retire after this season. With her pink hair, spunky attitude, and line of coffee beans, there's no telling what she'll go on to do.

One of ski like a girl's favorite Olympians,  Shannon has even more reasons to be happy. On 10.10.2010 Shannon Bahrke will become Mrs. Happe (pronounced happy). After winning the bronze in the Women's Moguls, Shannon said her mom will be happy because she can now help her plan her wedding to fiance Matt Happe.  Shannon started her coffee company Silver Beans with Matt.


From NBCOlympics site Speaking with Shannon

Your fiancé is prominently involved in the business also, right?
Yeah, it was definitely his idea and a lot of the business plan and stuff was his. And he does most of the roasting and packaging because I'm just not there very much, so I would say he does about 95 percent of it. But every time I come in he makes me do everything.

What's your fiancé's name?
Matt Happe [pronounced 'HAPPY']. So I'm going to be Mrs. Happy. It's destiny - how could you not marry someone with the last name Happy? That's just going to be awesome.

So you're taking his name?
Yeah, Bahrke - that's just like a bad habit. How do you say it? How do you spell it? Get rid of it. Happy.

Best of luck to the future Mrs. Happe!

xoxo,
ski like a girl

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ski like a girl & the Olympic Moguls

Steamboat Springs, CO, just before Chirstmas 2009. This race was different from the other trials. The winners won a guaranteed place on the US freestyle team. Let's all support our team at Vancouver.

February 13, 2010
Ladies Moguls Qualification  4:30
Ladies' Moguls Final  7:30

February 14, 2010
Men's Moguls Qualification  2:30
Men's Moguls Final 5:30
Click HERE for results.
 

ski like a girl is rooting for 2002 Silver medalist, Shannon Bahrke.  Go Shannon!
xoxo,
ski girl

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ski girl ponders, "When is a hill really a mountain?"

Today was supposed to be a long run. I also decided that today was going to be my hill run. If I was in Portland this would have been a 15 miler. Due the elevation here in Park City and the fact that I'm on vacation I thought that dropping it down a bit would be a nice thing to do for myself. My intended route was from The Canyons to the Utah Olympic Park and back. Just 9 miles or so.

Along the way there were some slight elevation changes. But the "hill" part of the run was the mile and a half up Olympic Drive to the Utah Olympic Park and back down. On the way down from the park I noticed a sign. 7-9% grade! Doesn't that mean the "hill" I just ran up was really a mountain? According to WikiAnswers, my new favorite source for useful and useless info,

"A mountain is a hill over 2000 feet (609.8m) in height. Anything under that is considered a hill."

Before I even started up the hill I was at 6300 elevation. Then I climbed and climbed and climbed... to around 7500+. So I'm calling my hill run a mountain run. What do you think?

The highlight of my "mountain run" was my brief stop at the Utah Olympic Park. The Olympic Park was awesome. I'm going back with a camera on Saturday to watch the Flying Aces. I'll post pictures.

While "resting" briefly, (aka desperately searching for water), at the Olympic Museum. I spotted Olympic silver medalist,mogul skier, Shannon Bahrke, she's been on the US Freestyle team for 10 years. She posed for a few photos by her life size advertisement for Silver Beans. And was super sweet and friendly. Silver Beans is a coffee company she's started complete with athlete blends and ski themes for her coffees inspired after a day of skiing.

• Blue Bird Espresso Blend
• Experts Only Blend
• Last Chair Decaf Blend
• Powder Blend
• Sunrise Blend
• Velvety Groomer Blend

Another cool thing about Shannon was her partially pink hair. I love it! Hope to see her at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. I read this in an interview with Shannon on SkiNet.

Is there any circumstance under which you would dye your whole head pink?
"Oh - if I won a gold medal at World Championships or at the Olympics I would dye my whole head pink."

ski girl will be cheering for you Shannon. Can't wait to see the full head of pink hair!

While recovery from the grueling climb I also got to check out some of the up and coming Freestyle skiers practicing their tricks landing in the Splash Pool. It was inspiring. I just wanted to strap on some skis and jump in.

And for $95, I can!
There is an Intro group lesson; learn basic freestyle skills and a few tricks by jumping into the Utah Olympic Park Splash Pool – the same training site used by the US Ski Team and Olympic athletes!!!!

Check this out you too can fly like an Olympian! FLY Freestyle

Or for $200 I can have 3 hours of private coaching. Private Lessons are coached by some of the top freestyle skiers in the country. All ability levels are welcome in these three-hour lessons. Learn freestyle and Freeride tricks while ramping into the Olympic Park Splash Pool. You name it they can coach it! You know I want to.

After all the excitement what I really wanted to do was ski but I had to run back down the "hill"/mountain and make my way back to The Canyons. Tomorrow it's a day of mountain biking. I love Park City! Oh yeah, if you feel like running any hills or mountains let me know. I'm up for it.

xoxo
-ski girl
p.s. You know I'm going to end up in that Splash Pool.