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    Adam Ü Does Not Play by the Rules

    Oct 20, 2017 2 minutes
    INTERVIEWED BY HEATHER HANSMAN

    AGE: 38

    HOMETOWN: Glacier, Washington

    OCCUPATION: Marine biologist

    Adam Ü has never followed a standard path. One of the last remaining professional telemark skiers spends his summers on a ship researching the last remaining vaquita, the world’s rarest marine mammal. The knee-dropper-slash-marine-biologist (slash former guitarist in the ski town band Metalmücil) grew up in

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