Cheap Ski Movie In Production
Welcome to our newest weekly column — Stuff We Like (we spent seconds coming up with the name). This is where we troll the web and post five random things that caught our goldfish sized attention span this week.
We don’t understand anything about this film other than it looks amazing and their budget appears smaller than the Snow Junkies corporate offices – which means we’re totally in love with this movie and plan to cover every new development until we get a cameo. Here’s all they write on their website:
“CHEAP SKI MOVIE is an epic, discount journey to meet people and see places never considered for a corporate ski movie… and a quest to find the real meaning of skiing.”
Further investigation into their Facebook page reveals that the heros, Jonny Van Easle and Lou Irons, have no money to produce a ski movie, so they create life-size cardboard cutouts of themselves and send them hitchhiking across America. See more photos here.
2. Burton Discovers the Interweb
Burton gets all 2002 by finally cutting out the middle man for their gear and throwing up an online store. Two things we love:
- You can actually surf around and get information on gear without getting sucked into their flash heavy mess of a site (see note below before you mock our site)
- They’re having a huge sale on last year’s gear. And there’s no sale like a 50% off sale.
Editors Note: We know our site design and navigation is hardly revolutionary, but The Snow Junkies was designed and coded by one part time drunk/full time ski bum, while Burton must have a whole department dedicated to the Intertubes. Please Burton, just google “web usuability”.
Here’s another article about how much dudes in ski towns are emotional retards when it comes to relationships. We would be offended – except that every sterotype in the article is true. Plus, it’s written by our super secret girlfriend Ingrid Backstrom, who besides being the sickest skiier on the hill and wicked hot, is also much funnier than we’ll ever be. Just listen to her describe one of the boys you’ll meet in a ski town.
“The Ski Tunah, like that reliable, versatile and delicious fish of the same name, can always be counted on. Chances are they work in a ski shop, although they can take many forms such as the landscapah, paintah or construction workah. They’ve usually recently migrated from the East Coast. They ski hard, work hard and, if you can just get around their one pair of dirty Carhartts and Copenhagen habit, are generally nice guys.”
Only open since 2004, Tamarack Resort in Idaho announced they are finished. It seems they were a little short on funds — like $250 million. The website has already been taken down, leaving only these words to remember Tamarack:
“As of March 4, 2009, Tamarack Resort is no longer operating. We thank you sincerely for your business and support over the past years.”
Most news articles blame the economy for the loan default, not the fact that Tamarack sunk their money into a 6 million golf course and a $20 million dollar lodge. What worries us is this could be the mirror story of our hometown hill – Moonlight Basin who also jumped on board the 2004 real estate bubble with the same wacky plan.
Speaking of closed ski areas, did you know there’s 592 of them in New England? We have been a bit obsessed with this site. You know that dream about having a ski hill all to yourself. It’s possible as long as you’re into earning your turns. They’ve also got links to closed ski areas in Colorado, New York. Washington, and New Jersey.
