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    A Sweet Tooth for Black Diamonds
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    • Jan 3, 2014
    • 3 min

    A Sweet Tooth for Black Diamonds

    I’ve never snowboarded, but I’ve skied most my entire life. My first time, age 12, I fell off the T-bar half way up the track, which forced me to the backside of the mountain: a jagged edge of wild and dangerous steepness, thickly hummocked with moguls. The run was ranked, in the parlance of ski hills, black diamond. Experts only. Too stupid to walk to base, I hurled myself down that slope headlong, skis crisscrossing, poles windmilling. It was pure slapstick. It was a burles
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