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Kim is an unliKely addition to snow-
boarding’s Mount Rushmore. Her family didn’t
grow up riding; her dad Jong Jin took up snow-
boarding as a hobby and took Chloe along. As she
improved, Jong Jin would wake her up around
1 a.m. on Saturdays for the more than five-hour
drive north from Orange County to Mammoth
Mountain so Chloe could practice. Jong Jin, who
years later quit his job as a manufacturing en-
gineer to support Chloe’s career, scooped her
up out of bed, carried her to the car and buck-
led three seat belts on her in the back seat of his
Honda Pilot. “I was just like a mummy, strapped
down,” says Chloe. “Then I would wake up and
I’d be in Mammoth.”