Warren Miller

[SkiDog]

Impact was Jeep. I think Higher Ground had Nissans. I don't know why, but for some reason I love those Nature Valley granola bars....

Its that smooth Warren Miller voice coupled with severe subliminal advertising...im actually driving a pathfinder and I think I have some nature Valley granolas in it.. HA

M

 

[lloyd braun]

I know Klaus (pictured) and ski with him a couple times each winter.

He has a few years on Warren Miller maybe five, but for 87 years old Klaus can get after it!

 

[riverc0il]

The crew from Warren Miller came to whaleback last winter, Got some shots of the mountain, and the ski school, just wanted to see If I could find those pics, but I couldn't find them. Anyone know where they might be?

vb

um, you sure that was warren miller and not dan egan's wild wild winter or what ever it is called these days? dan egan has been known to show up with a camera crew to smaller areas and do video, i think they did crotched last year. i would be rather surprised to hear warren miller pulling into the upper valley to shot some vid of whaleback. but then again, i would be surprised warren miller would book almost any session east of the mississippi and redos of the hunter firemen don't count as real eastern content.

 

[VB]

Yep, It was definatlly Warren Miller Crew, Evan Must have gotten them up here. They were there for most of the day.

 

[Vortex]

I thought I read Egan was in charge or North east productions for Warren Miller. I think I saw it last fall.

 

[thetrailboss]

Warren Miller comes east???!!! :blink: Didn't know that...

 

[Vortex]

www.warrenmiller.com/wmiller/higherground/press/index.html

Check out the East and West contact.


I Remember Loon was in one of them.

 

[thetrailboss]

Well, I know that they have in the past filmed in the east, but they have not been here as of late....that was my main point, which was cloaked in sarcasm....

 

[VB]

Yeah, you probably right. The east coast contact must have been the ones that came to the mountain. I got the point that they rarely come up this way, I guess they think that New England has only small mountains and little to offer, when we really do have alot to offer in extreme skiing.

 

[AdironRider]

Sure the east has some extreme skiing, but lets be honest here fellas, it doesnt hold a stick to anything out west.

 

[SkiDog]

Sure the east has some extreme skiing, but lets be honest here fellas, it doesnt hold a stick to anything out west.

Tucks sure does...IMHO..

M

 

[VB]

Depends on how you catagorize extreme Skiing. I belive our conditions(used to be) were better, and there are alot of really great mountians, like the Green and white Mountains that give thrill seekers a great rush.

 

[awf170]

Depends on how you catagorize extreme Skiing. I belive our conditions(used to be) were better, and there are alot of really great mountians, like the Green and white Mountains that give thrill seekers a great rush.

Nothing inbounds in the east is "extreme skiing". Barely anything O.B. in the east is "extreme skiing". The only things I can think of right now in the east that could make it into a ski flick under the "extreme skiing" catagory are Katahdin, King Ravine, Great Gulf, some of the skinnier gullies left of hillmans highway, Hunington Ravine, and possibly some stuff in the high peaks of the ADK's. There is probably some more, but there defiantly isn't a ton.

(For clarification I'm not talking about "extreme skiing" for eastern standards. I'm talking about stuff that would still be put in a ski film even if it was out west.)

 

[SkiDog]

Nothing inbounds in the east is "extreme skiing". Barely anything O.B. in the east is "extreme skiing". The only things I can think of right now in the east that could make it into a ski flick under the "extreme skiing" catagory are Katahdin, King Ravine, Great Gulf, some of the skinnier gullies left of hillmans highway, Hunington Ravine, and possibly some stuff in the high peaks of the ADK's. There is probably some more, but there defiantly isn't a ton.

(For clarification I'm not talking about "extreme skiing" for eastern standards. I'm talking about stuff that would still be put in a ski film even if it was out west.)

Yeah totally "not exterme" when Alec Stall died on Mansfield. I think that was a "blue trail"..

cmon..obviously it isn't "western" extreme skiing, but there is plenty og B.C. thats super challenging on the east coast...

I expected more from you AWF....thought you were an "eastern" hardcore boy?? I love the west as much as the next guy, but the east hs got character...

M

 

[awf170]

Yeah totally "not exterme" when Alec Stall died on Mansfield. I think that was a "blue trail"..

cmon..obviously it isn't "western" extreme skiing, but there is plenty og B.C. thats super challenging on the east coast...

I expected more from you AWF....thought you were an "eastern" hardcore boy?? I love the west as much as the next guy, but the east hs got character...

M

Forgot about Mainsfield. And yes, there is plenty of sick, tight, gnarly glades on the east, but are they crazy enough for a ski film where 50 ft. drops and double backflips are the norm?

 

[riverc0il]

austin is correct in that the east coast doesn't have much "extreme" skiing. there is some amazingly challegning stuff that would humble even well travelled westerners for sure (and it isn't anything on the map, no doubt) but very little in the "extreme" catagory. extreme to me is a fall equaling death in most cases or at least serious injury in almost any case. i don't ski extreme terrain, but don't feel very limited around these parts in so far as terrain i won't touch.

 

[SkiDog]

Forgot about Mainsfield. And yes, there is plenty of sick, tight, gnarly glades on the east, but are they crazy enough for a ski film where 50 ft. drops and double backflips are the norm?

Enough for Meathead to make a bunch of flicks...

I do agree...the west has us KILLED with terrain for extreme skiing...but we're certianly not flatlanders....

Personally though, i'm not much for the 50ft drop double backflip kinda films anyway...but thats me..

;-)

M

 

[SkiDog]

austin is correct in that the east coast doesn't have much "extreme" skiing. there is some amazingly challegning stuff that would humble even well travelled westerners for sure (and it isn't anything on the map, no doubt) but very little in the "extreme" catagory. extreme to me is a fall equaling death in most cases or at least serious injury in almost any case. i don't ski extreme terrain, but don't feel very limited around these parts in so far as terrain i won't touch.

I do agree....there arent many "no fall" zones on the east coast...probably only 1 or 2...

Cmon...you wouldnt heli ski in Valdez??? Any way you cut it..that would be "extreme skiing"..

M