CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT I’ve worked with Oliver Karlberg a few years now on various shoots and he’s so open and willing to try anything and incredibly patient as well. He’ll be the guy out skiing at 11 p.m., shooting the blue hour in the Swedish twilight—seen here in Kläppen, Sweden. In-camera multiple exposure of the event founder himself, Kim Boberg, at Kimbosessions, Kläppen, Sweden. What started as a park shoot in 2014 has morphed into an annual session—not a com-petition—now in its fifth year, attracting some of the world’s best park skiers: Kimbosessions in Kläppen, Sweden. Ski boots are painful. For those that spend 200-plus days on snow, that pain morphs and builds into things like Jake Mageau’s feet. Jake skis an absurdly rigid race boot in the park—it gives him brilliant control but takes a toll on his feet. There was a heat wave of -10 r F on this day in Duluth, MN. Tom Wallisch found a spiral rail on Google Earth and decided it was his childhood dream to slide it. See the cover of this issue for the action shot. Located between Wanaka and Queenstown, New Zealand, Cardrona sits in a valley flanked with terrain parks on one side and cross-country ski trails on the other. What was once the epicenter of the 1860s gold rush has since become better known as some of the Southern Hemisphere’s best park skiing.
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