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Up Close and Personal With a Wise-Cracking Ski Bum Van Lifer

There’s just something to be said about this quirky Bavarian ski bum.

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Bernhard Braun is an original.

No, I mean it. The freeride ski video landscape is cluttered to the point of obscurity with content ranging from predictably stoke-centric to painfully art-driven — sometimes in the same clip.

From those, SINNER FIELDS stands out.

And that owes in large part to Braun’s infectious humor. You know those people who are funny as hell without even trying? That’s our beer-swilling, storytelling protagonist here. No wonder he started his ski season late because he met “a very good woman down there in Spain.”

“You know how it is,” he cracked, after some vague hand and facial gestures.

But make no mistake, when Braun and his crew finally did get down to business (err …), they made the magic happen.

On the slopes. Sheesh.

Runtime: 17 minutes

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