Cody Townsend and Jeremy Jones’ refreshingly heli-free, foot-powered adventure on Meteorite is real throwback piece, pairing Townsend’s The 50 Project with Jones’ “Deeper, Further, Higher” legacy. Griffin Post’s line off of a summit the size of a refrigerator is the quietest we heard the crowd all night. Collinson pops up frosted like a yeti asking, “Do you like my hair?” Big crashes are followed by snappy one-liners in a traditional illustration of “Jackson cool.” Angel Collinson takes a colossal digger, leaving her miraculously uninjured. Battered and bloody, he gets longlined out on a heli-cable. In one segment, Sam Smoothy takes a behemoth tumble down an Austrian face. While diving deep into the humor they found in previous films, “Winterland” boomerangs, reminding us that big lines have big consequences. Particularly deep, was the Squamish, B.C., segment where John Collinson and Sage Cattabriga-Alosa punch through massive pillows with style.īalancing the tenor of the night felt delicate-this film is a homecoming of sorts, half retrospective, half looking forward. From Lofoten, Norway, and Austria’s Arlberg to the steep spines of Alaska, the athletes were not hurting for powder. “’Winterland’ is life inside the snow globe,” says Jones of the film, and with the snowpack last year he couldn’t be more right. Trying not to bag on Durtschi too hard, the film follows with him lacing up massive 720s. Ligare hucks a few massive cliffs while Colter Hinchliffe nails some jaw-dropping lines, and just when you think the tone is about to flip to “serious athletes on serious terrain,” the film cuts to the Tim Durtschi junk show montage that drew the biggest laughs of the night. Party skiing through the trees and slashing waves of February’s world-record-breaking snowpack set to Steppenwolf’s “Magic Carpet Ride” set the tone. The opener is charming, and played well to the crowd. Watch the “Winterland” trailer and more right here. TGR’s tone has, for the better, become much more light-hearted in recent years, and while “Winterland” had enough bold skiing to make Doug Coombs pucker, it had almost as many laughs. Deep.” But don’t be fooled, this isn’t an Air Force flick.
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A legacy piece, TGR took this film back to their roots a la “Swift. The crowd roared as Todd Ligare, Tim Durtschi, and Hadley Hammer ripped Jackson Hole top to bottom in the opening scene.
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This is the most unique footage we have filmed to date.Photo Credit: Andrew Ruesch/Teton Gravity Research Todd Ligare, Griffin Post, and Elyse Saugstad sign posters for fans. At one point we were at 23,000 feet capturing the entire range. “It was so magical to film Jeremy and Luca climbing and riding in the Himalaya. “We were able to capture aerials of Jeremy and Luca with the GSS C520 system, which is the most advanced digital 4K aerial cinema system in the world,” adds Todd Jones, TGR co-founder. Jones has gathered old friends and new to pass the torch to the next generation of big-mountain rippers, leaving tracks on signature lines in the close-to-home playgrounds he's made his own around Jackson Hole and Lake Tahoe, and making history with far-flung first descents in the Eastern Alaska Range and an unclimbed, unridden spine wall in Nepal's Himalayan mountains, where the stakes are as high as the peaks themselves.Īnd the action looks spectacular as always, thanks to the award winning TGR cinematography team. Higher traces Jones' snowboarding journey from hiking Cape Cod's Jailhouse Hill as a child to accumulating several generations' worth of wisdom and expertise about thriving and surviving in the winter wilderness. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.