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"Everything Is Extreme in America": A Swedish War Photographer's Look Inside the West

Trail Runner · 9/18/2026, 14:09:37

Swedish war photographer Jacob Zocherman spent three weeks road-tripping roughly 2,500 miles across California, Utah, and Colorado while shooting the Western States 100 and Hardrock 100 ultramarathons for Trail Runner. His conclusion: "Everything is extreme in America"—politically, geographically, geologically, meteorologically, culturally. On an individual level people are welcoming everywhere, but on a collective level there is suspicion and disagreement between groups.

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