Bring on the Banff Film Festival!
Hip-hip-hooray! The Banff Film Festival comes to Seattle for three nights starting tomorrow. Nick and I have been to Banff twice for the festival and love everything about it - especially the shared inner drive for adventure, testing personal limits, and doing things no one has ever tried before. The hairs on the back of my neck tingle just thinking about it. We can’t afford to go to Banff right now, the Canadian dollar being what it is. (Just kidding. It actually conflicts with school.) We can’t wait until we have the time/money to go again, though.
If you don’t have tickets to the local tour showing at the Mountaineers...um...too bad. It’s probably sold out. Put it on your calendar for next year, though. It is an excellent evening of fun. In the mean time, here’s a snippet of some of things you would have seen.
The Banff World Tour intro video (I just love the music):
“Weekend Warrior” (the best Banff Film Festival movie of all time). It was created in 2003 as part of the Filmmaker Showdown in Whistler in only 72 hours from start to finish.
Then there’s the amazing Ryan Leech doing a little trials riding in Prague:
“Shock and Awe 2” is the counter point to Ryan’s flawless riding. It’s probably a little more realistic of the real work that goes into this type of riding.
I don’t remember seeing the following videos at Banff, but they star some of the folks you’d see there. Introducing the notorious Timmy O’Neil in “The Guardian Angel”:
And my favorite of all, “Everyday Extreme.” This movie and “Sister Extreme” are the inspiration for my upcoming video production - “Extreme Snowshoeing.”
Comments:
Seeing the Banff films always makes me want to sell off all my possessions (except sporting goods), buy a van and just be a clmbing bum...oh wait, I’ve been a bum for several months now 
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