Snow Jones – Warren Miller’s Impact
Monday, August 25th, 2008
Warren Miller's Impact
So last night I was flipping through the TV and found Warren Miller’s ski documentary, Impact. It was a nice surprise to run across this film late on a Sunday night with nothing else to watch. The bad part… it’s Sunday night in August and it’s about to hit 100 feakin’ degress this week. Who is Warren Miller? Warren Miller is the master of documentary ski films. Warren Miller has been making ski films since 1949. He has shown the world what skiing and now snowboarding is all about. But watching this great showing of Impact… I started thinking back to when I saw my first Warren Miller film.
My first Warren Miller ski film I saw was way back in 1987. The film was titled “Steep and Deep.” I’ll never forget going to this show. A family friend of mine was old enough to drive and drove my brother and I over to the Scottish Rite Temple in Stockton. I remember that there was excitement in the air… the ski season was coming… the sponsor was going to have a ski fashion show (the neon was awesome) and there was freebies galore. People were excited for the film and the event itself. By the time the house lights dimmed for the movie… everyone seem stoked for a full immersion into the movie. (more…)