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MY NAME IS HANS LUDWIG, sometimes known as the Jaded Local, and I’m an addict.

For 25 years, I have been part of an operation that distributes a habit-forming substance to the public. I regret nothing.

I was born in 1972, the same year as POWDER Magazine, and I grew up skiing at Winter Park in Colorado. In 1990, my best friend, Troy, and I moved to Steamboat Springs to pursue a life of mogul skiing in pastel outfits, smoking weed, and the