Movies to Hype You Up
Premiere season has been going strong in the greater Tahoe area but a lot of the best movies can be watched from home. We wanted to highlight a few that you should check out. Invite the friends over, put these up on the big screen, and get stoked for winter!
Mountain State 2.0 - The entire state of Nevada is full of mountain ranges and Josh Daiek took full advantage of a big winter to ski big remote zones in the high desert.
Sequencer - A Quicksilver team film packed full to the brim. Thirty minutes of insane riding from Travis Rice, Austin Sweeten, Red Gerard, Bryan Fox, and many more.
Polar Star - Cody Townsend and Bjarne Salen release a full film for their forty-fifth line of the “Fifty Project”. Chamonix skier Vivian Bruchez joins the team on a multi day ski mountaineering trip to Baffin Island.
Tengo Echo November - Ten years of The Man Boys snowboarding and antics. This B.C. power crew always captures the love of snowboarding and the fun of being out in the backcountry with friends, paired with next level sled accessed snowboarding.
The Ordinary Skier - This film takes you through the professional ski career of one of the greatest to ever do it. Seth Morrison has seen some ups and downs but in the end his love of skiing let him leave his mark on the ski world forever.
Layers - Nitro Snowboarding presents takes a deep dive into unintentional culture of snowboarding and thoughts from people in different parts of the industry.
XL - Tanner Hall is still going as strong as ever. At 40 years old the ski boss is still riding street, throwing down in the park, and absolutely crushing the backcountry.
Casino - Thirty eight minutes of bangers from Beyond Snowboarding. When Kevin Backstrom, Sage Kotsenburg, and Mikkel Bang are in the line up, you know there will be style for miles.
Unified - The Head freeskiing team movie featuring local ripper Xander Guldman on a breakout filming year.
Riders Unknown 4 - A self made documentary of a crew of snowboarders in search of big lines. “PNW by any means necessary.” Great movie to get you stoked about snowboarding as a pa.ssion and obsession.
Mind Over Mountain - Released last Fall but not on everybody’s radar, Mind Over Mountain documents a serious adventure on the Bugs to Rodgers Traverse. Leah Evans, Marie-France Roy, and Madeleine Martin-Preney push through 85 miles and 30,000 vertical feet of peaks and passes.