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In its final night in Santa Cruz, the Banff Mountain Film Festival has a full night of rad films to showcase. Caution: contents may cause inspiration and a desire to explore the great outdoors. Information about tonight’s films is below. Tickets $18 students/$20 general at brownpapertickets.com or in person at the Bicycle Trip, 1001 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz. 7pm at the Rio Theatre.
Check out this trailer from one of tonight’s films, Reel Rock 10: A Line Across the Sky, an insane five-day push across Patagonia's Fitz Traverse.
Photo from the film Reel Rock © Austin Sadiak
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55 Hours in Mexico
Fly to Veracruz on a Friday, rent a car, climb the third-highest peak in North America, ski down and return to your desk Monday. How hard could it be?
The Warmth of Winter
Outside, the snow flies and the wind roars. But here, quiet and safe in the candlelight, the warmth and the wood wrap around you like a blanket, and the mind melts into reflections of days gone by. Take shelter from the storm. Sit down by the fire, have a drink, and take a load off. There is no warmth like a warmth found in winter.
Salween Spring
Travis Winn has been running rivers in China for 15 years. He’s explored first descents, but also watched rivers disappear behind dams. Now he’s founded a rafting company to bring Chinese to see their rivers before they’re gone. Salween Spring is Travis’s meditation on change, personal struggle, and kayaking along China’s frontier.
Reel Rock 10: A Line Across the Sky
Long considered impossible, coveted by many and attempted by a few, the Fitz Traverse has fueled the imaginations of climbers in Patagonia for decades. Tracing the iconic skyline of Cerro Fitz Roy and its six satellite peaks, it spans four miles and 13,000 feet across snow and ice-covered rock, with epic route finding and endless rappelling. Seizing their chance during a rare extended weather window, Tommy Caldwell and Alex Honnold went big. The pair completed the first ascent in a five-day push during February 2014. Selected as the Best Film in Climbing.
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Paradise Waits
How do you celebrate winter when snow finally falls? Freeskier Tim Durtschi takes tram laps at Jackson Hole and big mountain skier Angel Collinson rips up some Alaskan lines.
Voyagers without a Trace
In 1938, three Parisians pushed off from a Wyoming riverbank to attempt the first kayak exploration of the notoriously wild Green and Colorado rivers—and they recorded their journey, creating the first colour adventure film. The reels went unseen for 75 years, until Ian McCluskey spotted the trio on a roadside marker, sending him on his own adventure to discover more.
Bluehue
Natasha Brooks swims naked year-round in the cold mountain lakes of Snowdonia, Wales. Through this she finds solitude, grounding and a deep connection to the natural environment. Winner of the British Mountaineering Council’s 2014 Women in Adventure Film Competition.
Builder
Some people grow up and leave childish things behind. Others just take their childhood dreams and turn them up to 11 as they age. Building trails and tricks for your mountain bike never gets old, no matter your age.
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