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The following photographs are part of a continuing documentary of people who make their living from snowboarding, or who simply live for snowboarding. Within this community is a surprising variety. There are some who make several hundred thousand dollars a year and own multiple houses. Others live in tents or campers. The pros travel all year for competitions and photo-shoots. Countless hours are spent in cars, cramped hotel rooms, or sleeping in airports. What fuels them is the short, fleeting time spent descending a powder-filled couloir, or riding through trees at leg-snapping speed, or carving an icy slope to possible contest victory. Snowboarding is very much a landscape sport; it is action in harmony with terrain. It can be in-your-face or it may be a quieter, isolated, form-driven, expression.

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Mark Reilly on Zugspitze, Germany’s highest peak.


Max Plotzender performs a Haakon FLip during
the ESPN X Games. Big Bear, California


Amy "Wild" Rose. Takes a break at the base of the half pipe.
Snowmass, Colorado

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