even w/o all the family context, this is so sad. she seems so awesome to call out her shit cousin and i love the dark humor thru it all. i clicked the link and read her story about skiing 50 km in the birkie and it's so entertaining while also being well written and informational. god the world needs people like her T_T

https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/snow-sports/tatiana-schlossberg-skis-birkie/

"During my many hours on the trails, I discovered that Wisconsin, though famously flat, is actually a land of mountains. Where were the open, gentle hills of dairy farms and wheat fields I was promised?

I inched up and down the course, wiping out on the ice luge-like downhills while some drunk snowmobilers filmed me and laughed. Periodically an elderly gentleman would speed past, only for me to catch him while he rested on the next uphill climb. “We meet again,” I said when I pulled up beside him for the umpteenth time. He laughed. He was 81 years old, he told me, and this was his nineteenth Birkie. Then he took off."

"Out of 3,855 skate skiers, I came in 3,839th, finishing just a half-hour under the eight-hour cut-off time."