Jaguar Magazine 02/2017 – American English

“I USED TO COME HERE AT FIVE IN
THE MORNING IN THE WINTER TO HAVE
THE PLACE TO MYSELF”
PHOTOGRAPHY: RASMUS KAESSMANN, MATTHEW MICAH WRIGHT / GETTY IMAGES
hours pass by and the afternoon turns into early evening,
the pair continues to take turns in a seemingly endless
line of short battles with the perpetual wave. The sky
above is no longer blue, and the serenity of the Zugspitze
has been replaced with the deafening noise of the wild
city river and cars passing by above it. It’s as if we have
traveled between parallel realities, only connected by the
two riders’ dedication to showing us the best of both
their worlds.
“This is what it is all about,” Basti says, as the two
boarders finally call it a day, the cold water running from
their wetsuits and their skin still colored by the morning
mountain sun. “Living here means that you have the luxury
of choice: Mountain or river, winter or summer, it’s all there,”
he continues. “You’d be a fool not to take advantage.”
As the day comes to an end, the traffic at the wave wears
off, and only a handful of dedicated surfers still jump into the
water, trying to land that final big trick before calling it quits.
And as for Daniel and Basti? They are done for the day and
what a day it has been. But to them this is every day, and by
no means the end. They’ll be back on their boards again
tomorrow. And the day after that.
SNOW TO SURF WORLDWIDE
Nevada in Andalucía, Spain,
lies just two hours by car
from the Mediterranean
Sea and the waves of Costa
del Sol. A popular destination
for surfers is the
CALIFORNIA Big Bear
Mountain and the nearby sleepy seaside village of
Big Bear Lake in California El Palo, just outside
(above) offer excellent charming Málaga.
conditions for a full day on
your board. Less than two THE CHILEAN ANDES
hours apart, one can easily Snowboarding in the
make the morning snow Andes is on many a bucket
and still hit the waves in list, but why stop there?
the afternoon sun.
Start the day in Santiago
de Chile, and you’ll have
SPAIN One of Southern plenty of time to make it to
Europe’s most popular Valaparaíso on the Pacific
skiing destinations, Sierra coast, all in a single day.
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