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Meathead's Trailer for their webisodes on skiing the East Backcountry.
- Thread starter Puck it
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Thanks...Looks good.
snowmonster
New member
Sweet! Looks like the boys are back in town! I recognize some of those lines.
from_the_NEK
Active member
Doesn't look like Geoff McDonald is involved anymore 
(not listed in the credits anyway). Chris James is still there. They were the two that really got the Meatheads off the ground.
(not listed in the credits anyway). Chris James is still there. They were the two that really got the Meatheads off the ground.
Puck it
Well-known member
Doesn't look like Geoff McDonald is involved anymore
I think he is involved with the website business.
Cannonball
New member
Very cool to see someone you can relate to killing it an areas that you know. I love a good TGR movie and all. But watching yet another 20 year old pro heli dropping into some massive line starts to get a little dull.
Puck it
Well-known member
I am going to miss the movies but maybe another crew will step in now.
Us? Not enough to retire on but would be fun.
Huck_It_Baby
Active member
I feel similarly. I enjoy seeing the lines I can can access with relative ease in the films more than the big AK stuff in a strange way.
Yeah, I would agree also. Rather have something I can relate too!
snowmonster
New member
Quoted both for truth.
This was the appeal of the Meatheads films. It really catered us to eastern skiers because the movies featured spots that were easily accessible to us and, therefore, relatable. You sit there watching the movie saying: "Hey, I know where they are. That's Tux/GOS/Chic Chocs/Stowe/Outer Limits at K, etc. Let me drive over this Saturday and hit that this weekend." Which explains why there was a lot of grousing on this board when Meatheads announced they weren't coming out with a movie this year.
I love TGR and MSP movies but I'm sure I'm not the only easterner that sits there looking forward to that 2 minute segment in the Mansfield backcountry. Bridger Bowl and Haynes are great and I'd love to ski there someday. But, it's not as if I'm a local and get amped whenever I see footage of it because I know the terrain there like the back of my hand.
Yeah, ski the east!
timm
New member
Just piping in to agree.
Perhaps getting too philosophical about it but I liked that they were grounded in a specific place and had a sense of being "of that place", irrespective of the fact that it was also my place.
Even more so than the fact that the lifestyle is financially completely inaccessible to me the placelessness of the kind of jet setting line bagging that "bigger" movies usually offer does not appeal to me at all. I enjoy good ol' ski porn as much as the next guy but most if it I find about as relatable as Superman.
Perhaps getting too philosophical about it but I liked that they were grounded in a specific place and had a sense of being "of that place", irrespective of the fact that it was also my place.
Even more so than the fact that the lifestyle is financially completely inaccessible to me the placelessness of the kind of jet setting line bagging that "bigger" movies usually offer does not appeal to me at all. I enjoy good ol' ski porn as much as the next guy but most if it I find about as relatable as Superman.
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