Overview

A hybrid snowboard film and documentary following Jake Blauvelt — one of the most quietly influential big-mountain riders of his generation — through what he sensed might be one of his final seasons of high-level filming. After two decades of professional riding, from Forum Snowboards' golden era to his own films with Oakley, The North Face, and Ride, Blauvelt's body was running out of road. The film begins with cortisone treatments at a sports hospital in Vermont and follows him west to Mt. Baker, the Washington landscape that shaped his career, for one more season in the backcountry. Shot over six months between Vermont, Washington, and the Green Mountains, the production moved between modes — long days of scouting and jump-building in the Mt. Baker backcountry, quieter passages on the family farm in Vermont, and an undercurrent of intimacy that the snowboard film as a genre rarely allows itself. Captured on RED Komodos for the action and Kodak 35mm for the in-between, with photography by Colin Wiseman culminating in a companion print book. The film premiered simultaneously in Stowe, Vermont and Bellingham, Washington, followed by a global digital release through The North Face.