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I saw the Banff Mountain Film Festival tour at the Regent Thurs night. It's a little sampler of the movies from the festival, with a very loose mountain theme. So some of them are sports, nature documentaries, cartoons, etc. I always love the Collective's mountain bike films, they're a good mix of beauty and serenity and crazy precise biking. The skiing/snowboarding ones just make me want to cover my eyes :) I think I'm missing the part of my brain that would make me want to fling myself down a mountain. I'm just happy to notice that the mountain is there. Maybe wander in the woods a bit. even as a hiker I don't need to get to the top of things. It still seems odd to me that it's even possible to just walk to the top of the mountains around here.
The People's Choice award was a travel documentary of a French Canadian couple who biked 8000km from Mongolia to India via Nepal and Tibet. EPIC trip. I can't even fathom. But it was so neat to see the landscapes and when they cut the movie together they did a good job of showing the drama of the trip and how strong their relationship is. Imagine.. how many people on earth could you spend 5 months camping with and biking through the desert and mountains 100km each day? Maybe at a certain point there's just no room for ego and pettiness. In some sense the trip was a gift they gave to each other, you could see them delighting in the other person's joy and strength. who knows, maybe they just fought off-camera! I do think cycling is a fantastic way to see a place, you're right there in the landscape and going slowly enough to enjoy it and stop to explore and meet people.
There were a few climbing films: deep water cliffs in Thailand, bouldering, and one on a ridiculous peak in Peru. It's like dancing, I'm so impressed. And it's nail-biting just to watch. The Peru one was pretty simple but I got a kick out of the under-stated banter of the pair of guys making it. "It was difficult in parts. But it was good. ... You want more? Oh! The weather. The weather was good. Perfect. I'm going down now."
Standing in the rain afterwards we were discussing the possibility of spring. I was sceptical. Loved waking up Fri morning to the fresh snow. We haven't had nice fluggy light snow falls! But I also saw three cold, puffed-up robins on Friday. And something has started chirping outside my window at dawn.
Gorgeous sunset tonight all pinks and mauves.
The People's Choice award was a travel documentary of a French Canadian couple who biked 8000km from Mongolia to India via Nepal and Tibet. EPIC trip. I can't even fathom. But it was so neat to see the landscapes and when they cut the movie together they did a good job of showing the drama of the trip and how strong their relationship is. Imagine.. how many people on earth could you spend 5 months camping with and biking through the desert and mountains 100km each day? Maybe at a certain point there's just no room for ego and pettiness. In some sense the trip was a gift they gave to each other, you could see them delighting in the other person's joy and strength. who knows, maybe they just fought off-camera! I do think cycling is a fantastic way to see a place, you're right there in the landscape and going slowly enough to enjoy it and stop to explore and meet people.
There were a few climbing films: deep water cliffs in Thailand, bouldering, and one on a ridiculous peak in Peru. It's like dancing, I'm so impressed. And it's nail-biting just to watch. The Peru one was pretty simple but I got a kick out of the under-stated banter of the pair of guys making it. "It was difficult in parts. But it was good. ... You want more? Oh! The weather. The weather was good. Perfect. I'm going down now."
Standing in the rain afterwards we were discussing the possibility of spring. I was sceptical. Loved waking up Fri morning to the fresh snow. We haven't had nice fluggy light snow falls! But I also saw three cold, puffed-up robins on Friday. And something has started chirping outside my window at dawn.
Gorgeous sunset tonight all pinks and mauves.