Ihnken recounts tale of Global Extremes
ALMA - Now that her televised fame has reached its end, Alma resident Colleen Ihnken feels that being home is a little anticlimactic.
Ihnken, the 39-year-old Keystone ski patroller and Frisco Medical Center nurse, was one of the four finalists in the Outdoor Life Network's (OLN) Global Extremes, the five-month adventure series that crescendoed recently with a summit bid on Mount Everest.
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As to her overall Global Extremes experience, Ihnken, who won last year's 24-hour Montezuma's Revenge mountain bike race and has a long history of extreme athletic successes, said the series wasn't the Toyota 4Runner (the key sponsor) promotional ploy it looked like it might be at the kickoff.
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Now that Ihnken is safely at home and contemplating her next adventure, she regrets her decision to turn back. But she wouldn't trade her Global Extremes experience for anything.
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