Alex Showerman told her story to producer Lushik Lotus Lee for an episode of The Daily Rally podcast. It has been edited for length and clarity.
It was almost this coming to a head of all of these things I was burying deep down inside, that I just wasn’t addressing. I think it just came literally crashing on me.
I am just outside of Bellingham, Washington, in the very, very, very Northwest corner of Washington state. I am originally from Vermont.
Growing up I was always a really active, outdoorsy child. Pretty much every outdoor activity you can think of a kid growing up in rural Vermont doing, I did. Cross country skiing, snowboarding, mountain biking, pond hockey, organized ice hockey, cross country running, tree climbing…all of that. An irony in my life is that my mom was always terrified. She was like, “You’re gonna break your neck, calm down.”
It was In 2019 in Waterbury, Vermont, my hometown on my favorite trail network that I was deeply connected to. I was on this trail called S’mores, which is actually an intermediate and beginner-friendly flow trail. It was sticky and hot, and clearly my brain…
