Wasatch backcountry featured in ‘Cold Smoke Revisited’ (video)
Image courtesy Rusty Hoot Motion Pictures
Fall is the time of year that ski films tour across the country in an effort to allow skiers to come together and get stoked about the upcoming season. Dozens of new ski movies are screened in mountain theaters, to the delight of the fleece-clad masses. But the best ski movie released this year, if not the best movie ever made, can only be viewed online.
“Cold Smoke Revisited” is the new ski movie from Salt Lake City/Denver based film company, Rusty Hoot Motion Pictures. It features backcountry skiers in the Wasatch Mountains as they shred the gnar, spackle the pow, and drop enormous cornices to a pounding, killer soundtrack.
Okay, not really. In reality, “Cold Smoke Revisited” is actually a collection of video that I shot with a point-and-click digital camera. I documented me and my friends skiing in the Cottonwood Canyons during the ’08-’09 season. The whole movie is basically a send-up of the ego-infused ski porn that is so prevalent in modern ski films. “Cold Smoke Revisited” features painfully average skiers who think they are elite shredders with their sort-of-good powder turns, who revel in their blind faith toward the Norse god, Ullr… and Jagermeister. The movie also exclusively features music by Madsumo.
In a few words, “Cold Smoke Revisited” is mediocre skiing at its finest. Check it out below:
