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We have the nicest snow in the countryside. We used to get a lot more but can't help that. We just come out and ski what's here every day.

Then over here we got Dennis.

They call me the tail gunner because I'm the last guy who comes down. If anybody gets hurt I am the one who comes to save you.

So in that way I can go the slowest, which is nice. I don't like to speed like they do.

Bob probably knows every tree out here by name.

- I broke a ski here couple years ago.

A guy in my ear talking right now, sorry.

- Ski good or eat wood.

But you can't hear anybody.

Make sure that earpiece is on. And I like to hear people.

Oh, Mary is the only other person that shows up just about every day, all the others have got: "Bad legs, bad knees."

Well winter has changed over the years. But I guess we still be skiing a long time - it's just that we are used to skiing in knee-deep powder.

- What's happening to all the snow, chef?

- Ah... It's turning brown and moldy.

- You can't eat yellow snow.

- I know, because it's dog poo or cat pee.

- Only the freshing fresh.

- Well I eat from the ground also.

- You're just a little doggy.

- Ah... I ski with my brother and I like it when he farts.

I guess the soul of winter is in the Kootenays for a lot of people. They come here for that reason. I think you can find the soul in other places too.

Yeah, my parents definitely gave me the biggest gift I could ever get. Which is love for the mountains. Super important to be able to pass that on.

Those skis are worth more than a truck!

You have a constituency that's out on a hill and everyone of them by virtue of what they're doing is an environmentalist.

And you are converting people every day through the beauty and natural world and the opportunity for redemption in a sense of freedom on hill.

You could just do anything and go any place. And you do. you get to the bottom...

You just think:
"Oh, ok. Let's do it again." It's that good.

CAN:

Skier's connection with the nature and the mountains is incredible. And puts us at the forefront of what's going on with our environment.

Climate is too intangible. It's just being called the perfect problem. You can't see it, most people don't understand it.

And even though it's happening, it's too slow to be tangible to most people.

Every generation in history has had their own big challenge to deal with, and this one is ours.

It's money. You have corporations funding political campaigns, and

working on a quarterly profit calendars. And it's impossible to take you eye of that.

A lot of comments I get revolve around people feeling badly. They feel bad about the car they drive, about the life they live.

And I think that this isn't about you, it's about how we all become part of a bigger solution. And we're all hypocrites, of course.

It's a fossil-fuel based society, but we have to all work together toward a common goal.

Skiers always scout difficult runs, think of climate changes as the same thing. While you are scouting it and think about it and planing action.

You get increasingly nervous or I do. And the second you drop in, you feel this incredible sense of relief.

Because you have an opportunity to succeed or fail on your own terms. Right now. And all the fearing, anxiety and planning is over.

The environmental crisis it's a huge puzzle. I think it's just a matter of finding your own role as a person. And finding our role as a society.

The common person, those are the people not the heroes. Who solved all the globe problems for thousands of years. And will continue too.

It's all about all the little different things that each of us can be doing.

Chapter Five

IMAGINATION:

Dave here is being the most influential freestyle skier in last 10 years by far.

He has innovated some of the coolest tricks you see in the park and the back-country, even now.

He was on the Salomon team when they first start to making twin-tips.

- Tell me about the new ski, man.

- I don't know but your girlfriend just flashed us. Do it again.

All we did is made a couple of small changes to the technology already available.

Fastforward it ten years you see the trick that kids are doing today that are absolutely mind-blowing.

You can find parts of a system that need to be tweaked and that cause radical change.

And so if thinking about what's being happening before you or after you, you have to embrace the fact that it is actually happening right now.

Skiers' minds have been opened. The general skier now is not fearing change, they are expecting change,

and they are actually demanding change. They wanna see improvements so ... That's pretty cool.

It's about allowing yourself to see things from a different angle entirely.

For example, in my case, I can be like: "I'll never use helicopters, I'll never fly around the world any more."

Might as well not use skis anymore cause those are manufactured in factories and that's bad, and, just like, basically stop doing everything I am doing and like staying home and trying not to breathe too much.

Like if you try be less and be less, that's not progression, you know. You are not really moving forward, you basically just slowing down.

But I don't think it's about doing less. I think it's about doing more, it's about being more creative, it's about being more active.

We have to make a world where when you are flying an airplane it doesn't produce carbon emissions. When you ski it doesn't produce carbon emissions.

Here we are at the base of a Blackcomb right next to the Fitzsimmons micro hydro renewable energy powerplant.

It produces annually what we ?conceal annually as an entire ski operation?

Humans have this way of making the impossible possible. Just like Greg Hill, he skied to a 2 million feet in one year.

The most important thing to remember is that you have to engage in your world. The analogy is a ski slope in a back country.

You don't just ski the slope. You have to know precisely what's going on on that aspect in that part of the world. And that's how you have to engage society as well.

That might not be a lot of people who stop to think about it, but the time spent in the mountain is really taught us really valuable lessons.

It's almost that kind of asymmetric warfare. The ski industry small but it's interesting. And so it can drive change.

That parallels the environment perfectly, because there's no other choice. We are put into the environment, we have to perform.

We seek these moments, we look for the unknown. We look for just a little bit harder then before.

And that's why the people go, the only way to find out is to drop in and try.

Chapter Six

REALIZATION:

You are a beautiful woman...

Teriyaki beef stick ... Native americans used to dine on a similar treat, they called it "meat pemmican".

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