Hallelujah would be my word of choice to describe how it feels to finally finish up with “The Pact”. Each year the editing and post production process gets easier and more steam lined, which is great. However, “The Pact” is packed with several short “stories” that require much more time and attention than the standard “ski porn” segments of just music and hot ski action, but there’s still plenty of that. It’s always a labored birth to put these flicks out, but we are proud parents once again. 

V for victory! The endless hours of punching keys at the magic screens is over, for now.

Jonah carefully handling the 500gig external drive that contains “The Pact”

The next step is to make the hand off to Norman Bosworth at BCI Video. Norman is a seasoned pro in the video production world and he’s got all the skills and software to polish up our projects and make them pretty. I found Norm in the yellow pages when I was working on PW05 and he’s been helping us out ever since. We are a bit of a charity case for Norman, he cuts a a great deal on his services because he’s really psyched on what we capture and he wants it look as good as it can. Norman will work on color correcting, audio mastering, fine tuning the transitions, and authoring the DVD. This is usually a week long process.

The movie length is 55 minutes. We worked with footage from almost 50 1 hour tapes shot from last winter. One hour of footage takes up aprox 13 gigs. The drive in Jonah’s hands is a 500gig drive that contains roughly 26 hours of footage. The Soundtrack consists of 25 piece’s of music from 20 artists. Our music was sifted through from over 130 CD’s sent to us from independent artists. More info on the progress of “The Pact” to come.

We like beer here at Powderwhore. Beer and telemark skiing go hand in hand, just like wine coolers and alpine touring. So, when Big Sky Brewery wanted to sponsor “The Pact” it seemed like a match made in heaven.

We’ve found that nothing hits the spot like an ice cold Moose Drool after a nice day skiing.

Sometimes you need a beer and you need it now, so instead of trying to find a bottle opener, get creative.

Powderwhore would like to thank Big Sky Brewery for their support, but more importantly we’d like to thank you for the beer. Moose Drool is only one of the 6 fine beers Big Sky makes.

photos courtesy Jay Beyer