Every year the Burton snowboard team travels south chasing snow. 28 Day
Winter: A Snowboarding Narrative documents a specific moment in time:
August 2006, when Dean Blotto Gray, Jeff Curtes, and Adam Moran circled
the globe with the world's best snowboarders. These young athletes, all
between the ages of 15 and 30, comprise an elite team of Olympic gold
medalists, legendary pioneers, and big mountain champions.
Burton's photographers not only snowboarded right alongside these power
players through the life-threatening courses and first descents down
Methven and Wanaka, New Zealand and Termas De Chillan, Chile, capturing
the airborne 720-degree rotations and flights across man-made and
natural obstacles, but also accompanied them in their travels and
downtime. An intimate and penetrating glance into the lives and feats of
professional athletes, 28 Day Winter is an epic photographic narrative
that captures these snowboarders pushing the limits of riding in the
ultimate conditions, documents the ultimate trip, and inspires us all to
ride.
Snowboarders featured in the book include Terje Haakonsen, the Norwegian
legend; Shaun White, the gnarly American Olympic gold medalist; Nicolas
Muller, the Swiss freestyle champion; Kelly Clark, Olympic gold medalist
and big mountain champion; Hannah Teeter, Olympic gold medalist; and
Victoria Jalous, the Canadian wunderkind.
