“I fully realize that free climbing the Dawn Wall of El Capitan is improbable. Miles of blank steep granite—no true weaknesses to follow… I’ve spent parts of two years either rope soloing up or rapping down from the top, swinging around, searching and trying the moves. I’m trying to force a paradigm shift with this route, and the prospect of linking together at least seven pitches of 5.14 to 5.14+ and another ten in the 5.13 range is daunting,” Tommy Caldwell.
Fall pickerel: Tyler Hughen, documentary photographer, and Kahlil Hudson, filmmaker and cinematographer, of Finback Films spend some time in northern Wisconsin compiling footage for an upcoming fly fishing documentary.
Paddle to Seattleis documentary featuring J.J. Kelley, a television producer for National Geographic, and Josh Thomas, a carpenter from Seward, Alaska, as they decide to build sea kayaks from pygmy wooden kits and paddle 1,200 miles from Juneau, Alaska to Seattle–96 days of exploration and adventure along the North American Inside Passage.
“…[W]hen you have three months at eight hours a day, you get to know yourself very well. And that’s huge just to go inside your brain to try to make yourself a better person. You learn just to be yourself,” says Josh Thomas in a National Geographic Traveler interview.
Bryan Smith, kayaker/filmmaker of Reel Water Productions and the 22-episode outdoor series The Season, scouts Dipper Creek –a tributary of British Columbia’s Upper Squamish River–along with Chris Trentwold, Shane Robinson, and Todd Gillman. Rope-work, rappelling, rock climbing, and creative portaging required…
2009 Åre, Sweden Jon Olsson Super Sessions: two Skiers, two filmmakers, and a photographer work together for two weeks (264 hours) to compile their best five-minute edit. The world’s most prestigious freestyle skiing event–with 24 of the world’s best freeskiers and 16 of the finest ski film makers. Australian freeskier Russ Henshaw is highlighted.
Crystal Gorge: Roaring Fork Valley kayakers Fred Norquist and Jake Sakson take on the Crystal River’s short, two-mile run above Marble, Colorado–4-wheel drives required. This footage is part of Forge Motion Pictures’WildWater–a kayaking movie chronicling destinations throughout the Rocky Mountains, Grand Canyon, and Ecuador.
B.C. Filmmakers Derek Frankowski and Ryan Gibb are the vision behind Life Cycles, a mountain biking movie they have been shooting and editing for nearly three years. The philosophy behind the film has been to “spend time, not money… and look at what inspires people to bike.”
Saturday is “blowout day”: portrait of local UK rider (Rob from Plymouth, England) as part of Trunk Films Census mountain biking project–a film about the unknown riders of the UK mountain biking community.
“We’re all just grasping for the same thing… to get out on a Saturday and peddle through the forest,” Rob.
Swedish filmmakers Adam Falk and Nicke Jacobsson spend a few days documenting urbanrails in the small town of Falun. Later, a two-day “pit stop” in Funäsdalen–some of the highest peaks south of the Arctic Circle and 360 miles northwest of Stockholm.
