“Shredding With Shaun,” by Hamish Bowles, was originally published in the February 2014 issue of Vogue.

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When I was a little boy and snow fell over London town, my sister and I used to take wooden tea trays to the gentle slopes by Whitestone Pond at the summit of Hampstead Heath. We would each hurtle in gleeful terror down the hill, generally arriving at the bottom in a tumbled mess of bobble hats, bruises, and woolen mittens that were thoughtfully linked by elastic ribbons (against potential separation and loss).

These were my first and last experiences navigating an ambulatory device on the snow.

My family didn't ski and neither did my childhood friends, and by the time I was moving in circles

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