“One of the first clips I filmed for my X Games Real Ski segment in Kiruna, Sweden—a disaster 270 to backside safety grab. In the end, it never made the cut, but instead, it ended up in Is There Time for Matching Socks , our edit that dropped in the fall of 2020.” Words Twig Spensley Photos Alric Ljunghager Captions Alex Hackel “You can’t spell street skiing without love. Ok, you definitely can but it is not as fun without it.” Hackel soaking it up with The Bunch’s Magnus Granér and Pär Hägglund in Kiruna, Sweden in the winter of 2020. Coast pro skiers often follow a well-trodden path: a ski academy education, a move out West, then punishing rounds on the competitive circuit. Alex Hackel started down that road at 14 years old. This past winter, a full decade later, he won his first X Games medal. His journey between those two points, however, reads very differently from the norm. 048 The Ski Journal EAST
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