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SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — Truckee resident Tyler Brown can ski uphill. He can ski on flat ground. He can ski almost anywhere, as long as there’s wind. And this isn’t cross-country skiing or Alpine touring or ski mountaineering, it’s skiing with jumps, flips, spins and speed powered by a source as natural as, well, air.Â
Brown is a part of the up-and-coming group of snowkiters in the Tahoe area that are pushing the sport to new boundaries both physically and technically.
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The US Open at Stratton Mountain, VT commenced today in true fashion with the men’s and women’s pipe finals. 10 men, 6 women, one pipe, and sub-par weather. Luckily for the competitors, speed was not an issue and the light was good enough to see the deck from about 15 feet above it.
Kelly Clark, Rebecca Sinclair, Gretchen Bleiler, Hannah Teter, Soko Yamaoka, and Kjersti Buass battled it out above the lip for the $20,000 first place prize  … Pictures & More