Really enjoyed that one, Cody!
Congrats to you & the team!
Good stuff!
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Really enjoyed that one, Cody!
Congrats to you & the team!
Good stuff!
Ill paraphrase this episode...
One more time, with feeling!
I think it may be your best? really great observations of situational decision making....
I mean the skiing(riding) when it happened was great but this was definitely not about skiing...
Was totally gripped. Good stuff
Great movie. And i thought the skiing was pretty good
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That feeling of standing already pretty committed of top of a line, thinking about it really really hard, and turning back. That one hit. At least you got a nice consolation prize on that attempt. The pad thai was a nice closer.
Best episode yet, thanks for bringing us along Cody. My palms were sweaty, I have chills running down my back, it was truly awesome. I hope every aspiring ski mountaineer watches your teams decision making and learns to listen.
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What a way to start the season, Bravo.
Everything about that was 10/10. It really captures the challenge.
Like others said, that moment of climbing back out was excellent to see. SO hard to actually do that when gravity and inertia (and maybe one of your party) pull the other way. 2x Trailer Park Boys references was also a highlight.
Looked like there was a dozen or so decent turns? [emoji16]
Your decision making skills are on point! Showing the fails was inspiring and then knocking it off was an epic win! Congrats!
It's amazing to see how Cody and Bjarne have grown as storytellers over the 5yrs. I'd be interested to revisit some of those Season 1/2 lines with the storytelling skills they have now.
Long way to say, thanks for bringing the stoke Alka! You deserve all the memeing fame you've achieved.
I'd echo everything said above about the episode and decision making, but major props to Nick for being totally fine with bailing and walking out when he was the most committed. Maybe there was some discussion off camera, but having a partner that essentially just says "cool, I'll head up" in that situation seems like a rare thing.
That was awesome. Thank you.
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I was especially impressed that Nick was so seemingly chill about booting back up when he was even further down.
And thank you Cody for the bonus footage down the St Jean coolie. That is a sweet looking line in it's own right.
Type 2 stuff. Great movie.
Great film. My 8 year old watched the whole thing with me.
22:00-29:00 would be valuable in most any rec avalanche class curriculum. It's the most engaging example of why you put a Plan B in your trip plan, and how to make the hard call.
Kudos. Just solidifying this as one of the all time great ski films/projects.
Big +2. What a solid freaking partner.Quote:
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+1 on a great episode, possibly my favorite. Those decisions and effort are what make it fun and rewarding. I could hear so many of the conversations I've had over the years in your discussions. We probably could have skied the Grand the 2nd time I tried, but it was dangerous and also way less skiing than it should have in a decent year. It was ultimately so much more rewarding to ski it last spring in much better and safer conditions. Backing off a time or three makes the ultimate success feel so much more rewarding more often than not.
Did I miss a TR on you skiing The Grand?Quote:
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I just looked at the first episode on Superior and noticed it was 7 minutes long. Beyond the experiences out in the mountains, I think one of my favorite things about this project has been how much of a learning process it has been in visual storytelling. A full trial-by-fire, experiment on the fly, learn thru repetition on how to make movies and episodes. The main thing I’ve learned from it all is telling a good story through film is both incredibly simple yet unbelievably difficult. Bjarne and I have grown a ton together in trying to document something while adapting on the fly to what the story is shaping up to be. Been pretty fun and I think this year with Split and Polar Star, it’s a bit of a culmination of the learned skills.Quote:
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One of the best episodes of the Fifty so far.
I was diggin the drum track :cool:
Excellent stuff
Bravo guys, that was a fantastic episode.
Certain parts are almost gripping to watch. You two have definitely come a long way.
Same. But that's also the attitude that gets you included on future outings. No ego bullshit. And it was the right call - trying to down climb with ropes and all of that with headlamps in the dark is the kind of adventure no one wants. It was February so pretty early sunset.Quote:
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Split episode is incredible. My favorite thus far. Excellent job and thanks.
Exactly. Hence why I go with Nick so often. He's always keen to give'r but can turn around with no fuss, ego or antagonism. Just a great mountain partner that I'll keep going into the mountains with because of it.Quote:
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Oh and yeah, with hindsight, we could've easily done it on that February day. We would've for sure been rappelling in the dark, been cold as hell, stressed and nervous but we could've done it. What's not shown in the film is all these little mistakes we were making the day before, the night before and the day of our attempt. Small little ones inconsequential mistakes that weren't big deals at all in the moment but added up together, it's that which helped add up in my mind that we weren't 100% on point on our first big mission of the year. That was a big part of it for me, if we were to continue and succeed successfully in the dark, we would have to all be on our A+ game and I felt we all weren't on our A+ game. I saw the margin for error being small if we were epic-ing down that thing in the dark.
Which is exactly how people usually end up dead in the mountains, not from a single catastrophic mistake. Much respect for recognizing that in the moment.Quote:
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When I left the house today to take the kids to school I yelled "we're headed to Split Mountain to give er a go"
"....this line has always scared me ...."
FKNA
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Some darn good calls made in this episode.
Nick is so gnarly. He was all in.
Really good watch. I was gripped.
I'm going to be so sad when Cody runs out of lines to ski on the 50.
Is there a Euro version you can convince sponsors to help you do? :D
Appreciate that insight. We're all learning here. Never ending lessons in the mountains. I'm watching for the stoke and the schooling equally. I appreciate it.Quote:
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Echoing what has been said but I relate so much to this episode. The conversations and group dynamics is so great to see. Also as a splitboarder it's great to see Nick just killing it and being such a good partner and solid person. I always found myself the lone snowboarder with skier friends on bigger objectives and they never batted an eye but I used to get a bit of questioning/attitude from new partners(which I understood).
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that was great
Is that the most we've seen Bjarne ski?
Impressive episode, great cinematic work, very entertaining… too long for my flavour took me three attempts to finish it all.
I like Bjarne being in-front of the lens and behind.
I had been wondering when split would happen. I wasn’t surprised it was still looming but with the winter Tahoe had I was certain it would be this year. In the opening attempt I was baffled by how little snow there was, I til you said it was 2019. Totally had me in the first half, not gonna lie. Also that was an awesome episode, thanks for having us along for the journey.
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Cool episode. Ya know…your steep turns are better than when you started.