As this excellent family obituary from the Aspen Times states, “She struggled for years with an eating disorder and hoped that others with similar illnesses would be open about their conditions, seek early treatment and return their lives to normal.” With the help of her family, she entered recovery programs, and about a year ago posted this video and others on Facebook, to raise awareness and try to help others. People spoke feelingly of the chronic eating disorder from which Karen suffered. Sahn, aka “Shaka” for her love of dancing. Whiting last year, with Karen’s permission, named a new route in Independence Pass after her and her long battle with illness, calling it K-Fight (5.11). She taught the children about backcountry skiing and safety as well as resort skiing.Īmos Whiting, who worked with Sahn for a decade at Aspen Expeditions, described what a solid presence she was in the mountains, and how in the backcountry and in climbing, “She always had your back.” Other area climbing partners included Kaplan, Kate Henry and Adrian Dreeling, Andrea Cutter, Andrea Tupy, Michael Salyers, Amanda Ramsay, and Heather Ardley. “Every February she took us out of school to come ski, and all January I looked forward to it,” her nephew Turner said.
Karen was an exceedingly involved aunt to Stacey’s daughter and two sons, present for birthdays, school events, and track meets, and taking them outdoors.
All their friends came, and the party “of course was busted,” she said, and by the end involved people jumping off the roof into the swimming pool, and small, damaging tsunamis. The two planned well, collecting all fragile household items and locking them up in the study, which they termed the Fragile Room, and putting flyers in the neighbors’ mailboxes saying they were having a party and not to call police. Once when they were in high school, their mother and stepfather left for a weekend, saying, “Just don’t have a party”-which Karen took as an opportunity, with Stacey soon persuaded. Stacey, the younger sister, talked about being a rule follower, while the adventurous Karen didn’t worry much about getting into trouble. One climbing friend flew in from Ottowa, and three close college friends, “the Carolina girls,” came from the Southeast to honor their “Sahny.” Sahn was described in loving and often hilarious remembrances by her mother, Gene Marsh, who cared for her in her final period, achieving great closeness sister, Stacey Sahn Petersen niece and nephew aunt two stepsisters (whom Karen had dubbed sisters, “stomping out the step”) a phys-ed teacher and many friends. She’d laugh and say, ‘Bring it over, I’ll fix it.’” Cari Kaplan, dear friend on the Snowmass Ski Patrol starting in 1997, says, “Because her friends are all mountain women and didn’t have much jewelry, we’d wear it all the time and break it.
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On August 18 well over 100 people from the ski, guiding, and climbing communities gathered at the base of Aspen Highlands ski area on a rare beautiful evening amid weeks of a welcome monsoon, and remembered a kind and gentle person who also knew how to rock and roll. She did Denali and she did 5.11-5.12 sport routes. Sahn was also a Division 1 collegiate runner multiple winner of the brutal Aspen, Colorado, uphill ski race called the Inferno an early woman ski patroller and snow-safety expert and a committed climber and guide. She made jewelry with beads and turquoise and sold it or gave it away she painted flowers and made cards. Karen Sahn was a great athlete with the soul of an artist.
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