The Start of Team Clambin
“Spring of 1979—one of the first times I skied for Marko taking photos of John Falkiner and myself in Verbier [Switzerland]. Our local shop had given us a few clothes to wear—Powderhorn from Jackson Hole, WY. For some reason, Western stuff in the Alps was super cool back then. It was kinda dust on crust, six inches of fresh on frozen bumps directly above Clambin. I liked to ski in front of John ‘cause I felt safer in case he bit it. Also, he was a lot bigger than me. Marko skied down and around, gave me the wave and there we were: double-page spread in Powder in the fall issue. They got the credit wrong, but back in the day you had to take the slide out of its plastic sleeve to print, so that shit happened sometimes. Marko was pretty livid, but I didn’t care. That spring session is what helped launch our careers and friendships that still exist today, it was the very beginning of our collaboration which became Team Clambin.” —Ace Kvale
Photo Mark Shapiro
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