International Women's Day

This International Women's Day, celebrate with the girls. Women on the Ascent will host a breakfast and group ride, followed by a guest speaker in the Cliff Lodge and a party on the Plaza Deck. Join to meet other women who love winter sports; get inspired by local legend, Jess Shade; and dance the day away.

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Schedule
- 8 am - 9:30 am | Coffee & Pastries on the Plaza Deck
- 10 am - 12 pm | Group Ride, breakout groups based on terrain preferences
- 12 pm - 1 pm | Speaker, Jess Shade in the Primrose Room at The Cliff Lodge
- 1 pm - 4 pm | DJ on the Plaza Deck

About Jess Shade
Jess Shade is a queer cisgender woman, high-altitude ski mountaineer and licensed mental health therapist based out of Salt Lake City. She has skied the great ranges all over the world, including the Andes of Bolivia, the St. Elias Range in Alaska, the Himalaya of Nepal and India and the Karakoram of Pakistan. She is the second recorded woman to ski Manaslu, the eighth highest mountain at 8,163m, as well as the second woman to complete the Chuting Gallery here in the Wasatch Mountains. As a therapist, she has the honor to work closely with the mountain community through partnerships with the Utah Avalanche Center, the American Alpine Club, several guiding companies, a local ski patrol and individual clients. In her work and play, she contemplates existential themes of impermanence, mortality, and freedom.