We do have a tribute to Erik Roner (who died in a skydiving accident in September of 2015).
How do you present Erik Roner in the film? The ski world lost a superstar, and a close friend of yours last year. When it’s foot-powered, you might get one good shoot in the morning and one in the afternoon. Say you have four athletes with a helicopter in Alaska, on a good morning you might get 16 shots you can use. You might fly a 100 miles in a day ticking off good peaks. When you have a heli you can get so much done in a day. When you’re doing heli, you get this routine of finding the zone, seeing when it gets good light, and good snowpack. It’s incredibly more difficult to get the shots for the movie. How does ‘foot-powered’ vs ‘heli’ change how you shoot? He really wanted to do something foot powered, and wanted to go to this zone in the Tod’s that we had been looking at forever.
Ian Macintosh led a foot-powered trip into the Todrillos (in Alaska) with Griffin Post to a place we wanted to ride 10 years ago. We have incredible stuff with (big mountain snowboarder) Lucas Debari shredding in pillow land. We were in India, in BC, and had couple different trips to Alaska, and had really good luck wherever we went. You mix that with anecdotes and travel and some of the zany shit that has gone on, and I think you get an overall picture of what TGR is all about.Īs far as the riding goes, we had a really good year. We’re still having so much fun in the field and our crew is such a tight knit group of people. We just wanted to have a little bit of celebration of TGR and roots, and include a few of these kind of wild unseen moments. This is a modern film following all the current athletes around the world. But it’s not an archival look back into the history of TGR. ‘Tight Loose’ is a phrase we’ve used for years. There is some reference to the genesis of TGR. So is the film a mix of fresh clips and nostalgia? At the root of it, we’re all running everything really tight so the athletes can just drop in and shred and get loose and go wild. It’s about all of the incredible prep we put into making sure everyone is as safe as possible when we’re shooting, along with our annual safety program and researching lines before we shoot, so that everyone can be loose when it’s time to go. We’ve been having a lot of fun with that too, mixing in some memories with all of the new stuff and bringing in some of the athletes we’ve been privileged to work with over the years. She can be reached through the editor.Why make such a big deal about TGR’s 21st birthday?īecause that’s the birthday everyone remembers. Sophie Dingle is a contributing writer for the Steamboat Pilot & Today. The film will be shown for one night only at the Steamboat Grand Ballroom on Friday. “Stoke the Fire” will encourage viewers to find their own stoke, both on and off the mountain.
It was a great reminder that one need not go to the end of the Earth to find a new adventure, there are plenty right under one’s nose if you’re willing to look.”įor Post, “stoke” is a lust for life and a fire fueled by not just the activity but also the people you’re doing it with. “With travel super limited, it was a unique challenge to find those zones that we may have overlooked over the years, … and it turned out there were plenty. “Filming this past year was a bit different, to say the least,” Post said. Joining Hinchliff in this year’s film is skier Griffin Post. “That’s one of my favorite places in the whole world.” “I get to ski with my best friends on a mountain that I know really well,” he said. “Stoke the Fire” was shot on location in Alaska, British Columbia, Montana, Jackson Hole and the North Cascades.
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