I finally managed to settle back into Salt Lake City after being on the road for the better part of eight months. Of course it always feels good to be in a familiar place, but it can have it's moments of difficulty as well for the simple fact that for so long my sense of "familiar" was seeing somewhere new every couple of days. The experience of traveling so extensively this year has been incredible and extremely valuable to me on both a personal and a business level, which often times are so beautifully intertwined that they are hard to distinguish from one another. As I've spent the last few weeks preparing all of the footage to begin editing "Hippies, Punx, & Misfits" it is very apparent to me that this is the right project for me right now for various reasons. The single most important one being that I was able to experience so many different types of subcultures within the telemark community in such a short period of time. There are so many charismatic and passionate people in our little ski world...these are the people that make it go around.
I'll be focusing on some documentary elements in this movie, which was something I didn't touch on in "The Freeheel Life." I'd say the thing I'm most excited to share with people, is some of the history of our sport and where it came from. I had the great opportunity of traveling to the humble town of Morgedal, Norway, where Sondre Norheim and his fellow villagers innovated a new turn, shaped skis, and bindings with a heel cable. In addition to that journey I also was honored to meet up with the likes of Doug Robinson, Craig Dostie, Tom Carter and others to talk about US freeheel culture and how it started to take shape here in the states, in the early 70s and 80s.
The work is going well. I have a rough cut of the "H.P.&M" Trailer that I'll be touching up and hopefully have up on the web within a few weeks, once I'm feeling like it is a good representation of the flick. It is going to be a fun summer and I can only look forward to what is to come.
Thanks for reading.
-josh
