Warren Miller Ski-lebrity Chris Anthony and I have been friends for about 18 years - in this time we have spent at least a few days each winter shooting a segment for the latest film.... usually we are off in some distant corner of the globe, last year China, in years past, Alaska, Ecuador, the USS Nimitz, Italy etc. This year I caught him at his home mountain Beaver Creek and we just got lucky and met on what the local were call the best day of the season. It's early April and we just received 24 cold inches of powder - the resort and patrol were nice enough to let us into Stone Creek early and let us have it to ourselves (sorry locals - it's the only way we can make the movies) for 3 hours. Chris was great and as usual hiked all over the place in sometimes waist deep snow. It was a great day - just deep enough to make great pictures without it being a total white-out. Chris dropped a huge cliff - probably about 75feet (pretty good for a guy in his early forties). Chris's dad Vino was along and he snapped the photos above.
Then a few days later we headed over to Vail to shoot a quick piece with a telemark skier who we dressed up as a WW2 10th Mountain Soldier on skis. He looked perfect - it was all to tie the segment together with Chris Anthony and his interview about how when you ski in Vail - you really feel the spirit of the 10th Mountain Guys that pioneered the creation of this area after they returned from the War in Europe.
It's going to be a cool piece in the new film.
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