INTERESTS / Snowboarding

Snowboarding

A winter away, the people in it, and the repetitions that make a trick possible.

A season becomes a life.

I applied to mountain resorts late one night. In the photographs that came after, there is actual snow, a room, people, lift rides and the ordinary details of being somewhere new. The season became much bigger than the idea that started it.

The dates below belong to the original entries. Some photographs and recollections reach further back.

Alex holding his snowboard above a wide snowy mountain view.

A way into this chapter.

From the record.