Warren Miller Movie - Free Lift Tickets

I think you've had quite enough meat for a while based upon your recent SA adventure.
A good colon cleanzing enema should be on your to do list!

Thank god you're not my doctor.

If TGR or Powderwhores start getting national distribution deals will their stuff start sucking?

They will if all the athletes have to suck down Oats 'n Honey (tm) before, during and after their segments.

Since no one has mentioned it, I'll confess that for me the WM film is not just about seeing a movie.

The WM film, despite what's on the screen, is for me an annual ski tradition. I have the photos of my son and I that they take every year at the Pantages--from little squirt to teenager now taller than I.

The excitement over the impending (or in some years just started) ski season is palpable in the crowd. I really dig that I am in a room with hundreds of people who care about skiing so deeply.

I get to see keith rollins and the rest of the Sturt's crew and touch bases with skiers I haven't seen since last season.

Hope to see some of you there...

Attending WM movies was a tradition for me, but then I began to feel like I was watching a 2 hour long Nissan Pathfinder commercial, among the numerous other sponsor labels being thrown in your face throughout the films.  That was enough for me to bag it.  Although I do miss seeing the good old bunny hill chairlift dismounting segments, that's something you don't see with TGR movies, the classic ski hill footage.  A little off the subject, but I just bought the Greg Stump 4-pack DVD set, with License To Thrill, Blizzard Of Ahhs, Groove, and P-Tex - now those are some kick ass flicks!

Those are the good reasons, Keith, and I definitely agree with them...

For those that want something a little closer to WM's roots, the PowderWhore crew is showing Flakes at Evo in Fremont tomorrow night. Looks pretty good and it's usually a good crowd, with good shwag. There's also the Sweetgrass Productions show in North Bend this week, I think.

Reportedly the first and so far only ski area that had to pay WME to film there..

The first? Frankly I find this very difficult to believe.

It used to be a tradition for us too, and I can't tell you how sad it made me to think - for several years in a row - how the films just weren't the same anymore and finally decide that I just wasn't enjoying them as much as I used to (with the exception of the comedy bits). I really tried to talkk myself out of feeling that way, but eventually couldn't.

So, now we go see the smaller companies productions. A new tradition is being born and the level of stoke is at least as palpable if not more so at these screenings. My kids also seem to feel like these movies are a bit more relevant to their ski experience (for better or worse). And there are fewer geezers like me in the crowd even though the films are full of stuff that even geezers can appreciate.

I must say I also like the fact that I can buy the tickets at Evo and not be subject to Ticketmaster's usury where a $20 ticket suddenly becomes over $30 vs. a $15 ticket being just that. Then there's the lawsuit business which was just pathetic.

I'd like to hope that perhaps WME will somehow find the soul they seem to have misplaced for many of us, and that we can once again enjoy their work.