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  • Опубликовано: 11 май 2022
  • Scott Gaffney's 1995 ski movie Walls of Freedom
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  • @SteveOfTheMountains
    @SteveOfTheMountains 10 месяцев назад +23

    Rest in peace, Robb. Im sure you and Shane are bounding from cloud to cloud like hitting these light pillows of pow.Thanks for all the stoke and inspiration Robb. Godspeed .

  • @alexspreservationsociety4737
    @alexspreservationsociety4737 Год назад +7

    Possibly the best ski film ever made.

  • @alexspreservationsociety4737
    @alexspreservationsociety4737 10 месяцев назад +9

    RIP Robb-man. You are not forgotten.
    5:11 Glen Plake Air, Mainline Pocket
    10:34 Middle Knuckle, Fingers
    11:45 The Shoulder, Eagle’s Nest
    12:10 Middle Line, Light Towers
    14:30 Triple Drop, Ice Goddess
    14:42 The Diagonal, Mainline Pocket
    18:47 Adrenaline Rock
    18:57 Double Drop, Granite Chief Chair
    19:21 Plake Line, Granite Chief Peak
    19:42 Shoulder, Eagle’s Nest
    19:50 Slitoris, Mainline Pocket
    20:17 Double Drop, Granite Chief Chair
    26:22 Patrol Chute, Granite Chief Peak
    26:38 Glen Plake Air, Granite Chief Peak
    59:41 Main Chute + Extra Rock, The Palisades
    1:02:35 Chimney Sweep, Chimney
    1:03:29 Pony Express, Chimney
    1:06:26 Robb becomes the 2nd person in history to stick Schmidiots, Chimney. Until then, Scot Schmidt was the first and only person to successfully ski this line in 1983.

    • @awcohen3020
      @awcohen3020  10 месяцев назад +1

      Love the timestamps 🙌 RIP Robb

  • @alexvimo8739
    @alexvimo8739 6 месяцев назад +2

    SKI BRAIN NATURAL SMILER MAJESTIC

  • @AllenSmithe
    @AllenSmithe 10 месяцев назад +4

    Rest in Peace Rob. We thank you for all you did.

  • @markappel2464
    @markappel2464 9 месяцев назад +2

    RIP Robb! Your memorial this past Saturday is a testament to the impact you had on all of us. You are the best dad, the best adventurer, the best husband, son, doctor, community member (thanks for saving Squaw!), and so much more...a complete MAN we can all be inspired by...and BTW....I am not in any way... better than you! GNAR! GNAR!!

  • @scottgaffney7879
    @scottgaffney7879 Год назад +57

    What??? Can't tell you how many times I've been asked when this will be online. I keep telling people "maybe by 2032."

    • @turnyernie
      @turnyernie Год назад +1

      Well Scott, thanks for making this awesome show and all you’ve done over the years for the sport. What a grand time that highlights the energy of skiing in the mid 90s. Hope you are recovering well & hope your brother is doing as well as can be.

    • @patrickchase5614
      @patrickchase5614 Год назад +1

      The soundtrack on this is a banger. I can understand why it's difficult to release digitally.
      I'm watching along with my dog-eared copy of 'Squallywood'

    • @alexspreservationsociety4737
      @alexspreservationsociety4737 Год назад

      Scott I’ve been looking for that Carnival of Souls song “Let it Go” forever. I can’t find it anywhere except in this movie.

    • @scottgaffney7879
      @scottgaffney7879 Год назад +1

      @@alexspreservationsociety4737 I met them in South Lake at a show at got a tape from them, but I have no idea where my tapes are now. I've looked them up without success, so...

    • @alexspreservationsociety4737
      @alexspreservationsociety4737 10 месяцев назад

      Thanks for replying back. You, your brother, and this movie changed my life. I'm in the midst of finishing up a GNAR book for my own local ski patrol at Hunt Hollow based on what you guys accomplished. Little did I know the end of the book would turn into a sobering epitaph for Robb. @@scottgaffney7879

  • @dennisbehan1590
    @dennisbehan1590 10 месяцев назад +3

    RIP Robb, truly an inspiration to us mere mortals. Thanks for all the great times!

  • @BCRandom69
    @BCRandom69 Год назад +16

    Thanks for doing this. This flick is iconic.

  • @MichaelKantor1
    @MichaelKantor1 Год назад +8

    I truly planned on having a productive afternoon. Really, I did.

  • @timoakes2685
    @timoakes2685 2 месяца назад

    SQUAW it doesn't get any better.

  • @user-cq3ju5kv6q
    @user-cq3ju5kv6q 10 месяцев назад +1

    This is a Great ⛷ Ski film! 😊 The equipment back then also took more work then the new shaped Skis we have today. We can Thank Shane MCConkey for that since the reason we now have wider skis was his idea. These guys make Skiing ⛷ look so easy, all very fine athletes with such smooth, technical skills! Polished.Thank You Scott for filming this. Finally Robb and Scott you seem to have done so much to help with Lake Tahoe Conservation in the fight against "reckless development" at Olympic Valley. Thank You. 😊 Robb, I said a prayer 🙏 for you and your Family this morning at mass in Tahoe. 😇 Condolences to your Family.

  • @gsp631
    @gsp631 Год назад +4

    WOW. Words can't describe what should be experienced :)
    Just go and see . . Wheeeeee

  • @curbdog3036
    @curbdog3036 2 года назад +9

    Been waiting for this, all time favorite ski movie, my vhs copy wore out long ago, Thanks!

  • @BrettMcNary
    @BrettMcNary Год назад +6

    Great job uploading this. I guarantee I've probably watched this on old vhs more times than even Scott Gaffney himself haha. Classic ski movie

  • @telstarlogistics
    @telstarlogistics Год назад +1

    This film changed my life.

    • @dougda
      @dougda Год назад

      YES! Exactly - I was 23 years old watching this movie over and over on VHS in Indiana and eventually it clicked and I moved out West and started really living my life. RIP Shane McConkey.

    • @flatoutrich258
      @flatoutrich258 9 месяцев назад

      Someone who had been skiing squaw a few seasons showed back up in VT with a copy of this and "Breathe" summer 1998. I was on the road to tahoe by mid november, havent left, just bought my 26th squaw valley usa pass last week. (Formerly palisades tahoe)

  • @hanswurst5865
    @hanswurst5865 7 месяцев назад +1

    BIG UP!!!

  • @murphysackett5529
    @murphysackett5529 Год назад +1

    Thanks made my day!🤙

  • @coolcid8888
    @coolcid8888 Год назад

    Yet another legitimate masterpiece

  • @gordonisl33t
    @gordonisl33t Год назад +3

    I am getting maximum enjoyment out of life and ill never stop
    this!

  • @jdaltonpe1
    @jdaltonpe1 10 месяцев назад

    love it

  • @TheEndIsNear333
    @TheEndIsNear333 6 месяцев назад

    They myth, the legend, Kent

  • @patrickchase5614
    @patrickchase5614 Год назад

    OMG, 49:50 is such a classic Gaffney narration: "With [backcountry safety] in mind Shane .... enters a chute with just a single rotation"

  • @colincarver893
    @colincarver893 Год назад +1

    Siiik. Fun to reminis. How much more the human body can take. Haha. Well, its gone a bit further id say. Long film. Good times

  • @Moondaka89
    @Moondaka89 Год назад

    old school yeah...

  • @huntermontgomery973
    @huntermontgomery973 Год назад

    McConkey with the lettuce is impossible to beat

  • @arapahoe_basin
    @arapahoe_basin Год назад +1

    💙❤

  • @juergengrissenauer7995
    @juergengrissenauer7995 6 месяцев назад

    TipTop

  • @Mr2plank
    @Mr2plank Год назад +1

    thats the dank cheese right here

  • @patrickchase5614
    @patrickchase5614 Год назад

    Is that Adrenaline Rock over near the old Cornice II at 18:40?
    I need to go dig out my well-loved copy of 'Squallywood' since that has all of the times for the various features in WoF.

  • @cameronwillett613
    @cameronwillett613 Год назад +3

    Love how Shane knew Vail was shit.

  • @alexvimo8739
    @alexvimo8739 6 месяцев назад +1

  • @charliechristian1097
    @charliechristian1097 Год назад +1

    Jesus why is it that these last few months all I care about is riding my snowboard why can't I just be normal

  • @farmerscast6479
    @farmerscast6479 Год назад

    What is that song that starts at around 7:50. When yall hit the 14ers on the last day of summer?
    I ❤ this flick.
    Great job Rob and Scott

    • @awcohen3020
      @awcohen3020  Год назад

      Song credits at the end of the movie starts around 1:25:31

    • @scottgaffney7879
      @scottgaffney7879 10 месяцев назад

      That would be Beads by a band called Mighty Kong. A few college friends who named themselves after their Rottweiler. Only had it on tape, and it seems all of my tapes have disappeared...

  • @slck9404
    @slck9404 Год назад +1

    does anyone know the song from 24:33 ?

    • @awcohen3020
      @awcohen3020  Год назад

      Song credits at the end of the movie starts around 1:25:31

    • @slck9404
      @slck9404 Год назад

      ​@@awcohen3020Bummer. The song is called "4 ever" but I cant seem to find it online.. any ideas?

  • @drew6167
    @drew6167 Год назад

    What the song @ 10:20

    • @awcohen3020
      @awcohen3020  Год назад

      Song credits at the end of the movie starts around 1:25:31

  • @johns3106
    @johns3106 Год назад

    Interesting…given the gear of the day, even the best skiers looked like they were working hard and really putting their skills to the test on these lines…now days, the best skiers (with modern skis) make even the gnarliest lines look easy. For non-pro skiers like me, there is something more relatable in the old style. Will they land it or won’t they?!

    • @patrickchase5614
      @patrickchase5614 Год назад +1

      There's also a difference in preferred skiing aesthetics. In this movie people make turns in stuff that would be straightlined today, or that wouldn't be featured at all. The skiers in this movie (especially Shane) were perfectly capable of straightlining those lines in 1995, too. I rode 212 Atomic SGs all mountain back then, and stability/speed was not a problem. Sustained, tight steeps over exposure really aren't skied much differently now, either - windshield-wiping is still the order of the day. It's just not seen as something worth putting in a movie any more.
      To be sure there have been significant equipment-driven advances but you can also see the beginnings of the new school in this movie. That's one of the things that make it such an interesting document.

  • @alexvimo8739
    @alexvimo8739 6 месяцев назад +1

    HAVEN'T SEEN IN MORE THAN FIRST IN GUESSING 85-90SAME MIND