Featured Image: Courtesy of Matchstick Productions
If you're watching this segment for the first time, I envy you. Matchstick Production's 2014 movie "Days of My Youth" is packed with a lot of great skiing and fantastic storytelling, but this segment might stand apart simply because of its ability to capture the pure joy that comes with ripping the resort with your friends.
Examining the lifelong relationship we skiers share with sliding on snow, the movie takes us through multiple viewpoints, times, and locations to examine skiing as the full-fledged experience that it is. Here we get to join names that have gone down in freeski fame: Cody Townsend, Banks Gilberti, Richard Permin and Sander Hadley. For one reason or another, each of these skiers has had their fair share of time in the limelight, and you'd be right to spend an entire evening diving into all of their individual parts from throughout the years.
But for now, we'll focus on the project at hand. From Snowbird to Crested Butte to Revelstoke, this crew shows us exactly what's so amazing about hot laps. Laughing, stomping and cheering their way down the hill, it's easily one of the best resort segments ever made in my book. So as summer continues to blaze ahead, just know more time like this on snow is coming soon.
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This segment from 'Days of My Youth' (2014) is playful resort skiing at its finest. We threw Cody Townsend, Sander Hadley, Richard Permin, and Banks Gilberti together to rip around on some of the best terrain at Snowbird, Crested Butte, and Revelstoke ski resorts.
How many of these exact lines have you stood at the top of?
