Angel on Freedom
Listen to an excerpt from a recent chat with Angel Collinson before the entire conversation runs with SKI Magazine...
Shared experiences in the Selkirk Range of the Columbia Mountains in Canada and the Chilean Andes introduced Angel and I more than 10 years ago. She was lovely then, and she’s lovely now.
I had a chance to see Angel recently, and that in-person reconnect sparked a subsequent phone interview. The entire story is TK with SKI Magazine. It’s good because she’s honest and vulnerable and fun. Stay tuned…
In the meantime, check out this excerpt from our conversation. I keep returning to soundbites from our chat because they didn’t graze my shoulder; rather, her perspective and insight struck me directly in the heart.
Have interactions with fans changed since she shoved off on a trans-Atlantic sailing journey leaving her ski career on the shore?
“I think that whatever it is that we do is the platform to be ourselves and to express who it is that we are,” says Angel. “Skiing had been the platform that people had known the being of Angel through, and when I left that people didn’t lose how they related to me. It was always me that they saw, and loved, and supported. Now, it’s just in a different context. It’s bigger and more and true to me and the depths of how I want to be in the world. You know?”
Has she been clicking into skis and sliding on snow now that the boat is docked and she’s paying rent in Boulder, CO?
“I skied two different days at Eldora,” says Angel. “But this is the first winter that I have been really skiing, going back to my home hill where there’s more terrain and skiing stuff that I can stand on and feel a little scared.”
Is she back? Is she kind of back to skiing? What’s Angel’s relationship like now with the thing that used to be her profession?
“Yeah, it’s interesting. That’s what I’ve been trying to figure out,” says Angel. “I definitely wouldn’t say that I’m back. I would say I am allowing skiing to be present in my life again but it’s now relegated to a much smaller portion of my life. And that feels really good.”
