17-year-old Marcus Kleveland actually lasted a minute and 26 seconds (in video edit time). Impressive for a virgin.
I remember my first time. Everyone remembers their first time. For me, it was wham, bam, thank you ma’am and on to manhood. I didn’t know exactly how to ride it, so I just sort of rammed into that freshness with an exuberance only pimple-faced adolescents know. Then I did what I had seen in videos and started moving my hips every which way to navigate that softpack… that feel-good, oh-so-wonderful softpack. In the end, it was admittedly a bumpy go, and I was done before I knew it, popping out to a chorus of noises I had never heard before, let alone made myself. But it was my first time, so who gives a damn how long it lasted or how well I rode.
Yep, that was my first time. And it was pretty much the same for my first time riding pow.
As all first times go, Marcus Kleveland is just like the rest of us: a little awkward. But that should be expected — it was the Norwegians, again, first time ripping true backcountry. But don’t you worry; the 17-year-old Prince of Instagram quickly grabbed hold of that legendary Japow, learning its ins and outs and curves and mounds before caressing a couple moments out of it as he got into a good rhythm and started putting on something of a show, dropping cliffs like WHOOOAAA.
Kid is a goddamn natural. And it doesn’t hurt that Eero Ettala is there to show him the way.
