If you look beyond the knee length tee-shirts and gun shaped hand gestures, there is one particular hip-hop movement that has drastically shaped the culture of skiing for the better. What is that trend? The mixtape. The personal mixtape (or edit) medium has been the fertilizer for the growth of current stars and the connection to the masses for established pro’s. Yet just as rock ‘n roll hasn’t embraced the hype machine that is the mixtape, big mountain skiing continually resorts to established production practices to broadcast to the masses. Where is the Sage Cattbriga-Alosa “If Jesus were to ski Alta” edit? Where is the “C & E Show” with Chris Rubens and Eric Hjorliefson? Where are the “Mark Abma Recovery Files”!?!
Now being a big mountain skier myself, I understand the constricting logistics of filming lines. Exponential amounts of effort, single attempts at lines and long weather delays cause for much fewer chances to bring about quality footage then do hot laps in the park. Yet small HD cameras exist, helmet cams are cheap, editing software is retard proof and friends can easily get to the bottom of a line and point the camera upwards. Stop worrying about blue-bird days and film on a grey sky crud day at the resort. You’re probably gonna still do stuff 99% of the world’s population can’t do. Helmet cam your buddy through the trees as he backflips off natural features. Hike a couloir and film that shit.
Seconded. POV big mountain and pow edits are the best. Provo is doing the right thing.
Sage is on it:
http://sagecattabriga-alosa.com/2010/10/cant-wait-for-pillows-of-pow/
Good point Ian. Provo has been killing it with great pow edits for a few years now but he’s only one guy. Cody makes a great point though. Let’s see some more big mountain edits with grey sky and powder turns.
I will agree that Ian Provo has been putting out some amazing stuff. I can’t forget to mention that Andrew Whiteford from Jackson Hole has put together some great helmet cam edits as well. There are edits out there, I just hope to see some more!
Cody…yours words will not fall on deaf ears. If the proliferation of POV came in the freeskiing tours over the past few seasons is any indication, our community is poised to deliver on your rally call.
*cams*
http://www.nimbusindependent.com
not as big mountain as cody, but definitely more big mountain than those dress wearing park slugs (and i mean that with the highest respect).
^Right on Bloke. I forgot about Nimbus. Their shit is always so good, I usually forget what type of skiing I’m watching.
Chris Turpin has some sick helmet cam edits. Switch big line stuff I could watch all day. One of my favorites that deserves more expose, brobomb should interview him.
Amen, Mr. Townsend. I hope to churn out quite a few big mtn edits this season. We’re out there thinking the same thing as you.
http://jonjay.org/2010/04/11/dead-dog-couloir-pov/
Callum Petit- 09/10 Edit:
http://vimeo.com/16269442
Says the guy who almost never updates his own blog…
Does this thing work?
Had a long comment typed out, but I guess If you have too many characters here, you just lose it.
Big mtn is tough to film and takes sooo much time. You can’t get the depth of pow with a pov, the steepness of a run, or the height of a cliff. So then you have to find someone willing to stop on a pow day to shoot video, which may or may not come out okay. If you have the time to film pow, if it’s untouched,you probably hiked there and are limited to filming a run or two, as opposed to park kids who can just set a camera down and hit the same rail a million times.
I can’t post the rest of my comment.
Lengthen your comment parameters.
Onezie: I deserved that.
Brett: Yes, I wholeheartedly agree.
Callum’s edit is nasty by the way. I’m so stoked he put that out there.
My only advice with POV (GoPro) edits is to get 2 with a friend and follow each other. it’s more fun and not unbearable to watch like an all hemet can video.
I remember seeing an edit of 2 people who filmed with 2 go pros and kept switching cams skiing tree and such. It was sick, so I support the 2 camera idea.
I think you partially answered your own question; logistics are the single biggest roadblock.
However, I couldn’t agree more! I would LOVE to see you, or any number of the Squaw locals rock go pros and film yourselves (each other) just skiing around your own stomping grounds. Some chairlift banter, some silly exchanges at the top of some line, some sick shots, a tune, and boom! There ya have it!