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THE SEDUCTION OF SKIM

Source: Come on in, the water’s fuuuureezing!

THE WHO: It’s the dead center of another asphalt-roasting summer, and even after California’s leviathan winter, the Sierra Nevada snowpack has been relegated to dirty patches of white stuff where the sun don’t shine. You want to ski, but scrambling up ankle-biting talus for a few hundred feet of sun-cupped glory no longer lights the fire within.

What to do? One option, made possible in Tahoe

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