“The day we did the heli shoot [mentioned here], we knew the snow was
going to be really deep. So when we flew up to our first landing area, Eric
Jackson, stepped out of the heli and plunged up to his arm pits in the snow. He
was really stuck because the snow had a thick wind crust on it and this made it
so Eric could not take a step forward. So the rest of us remained in the heli
and had a good laugh at Eric while he floundered in the snow until he could
swim a few feet forward. . . . It was some of the deepest snow i had ever seen to
date.”
—Travis Robb, director of Black Winter, which showcases the annual progression of individual members of a select
group of professional snowboarders.
Black Winter plays at 5:30 tonight at Edwards Island Cinemas. Go here
for ticket info.
OC Weekly Editor-in-Chief Matt Coker has been engaging, enraging and entertaining readers of newspapers, magazines and websites for decades. He spent the first 13 years of his career in journalism at daily newspapers before “graduating” to OC Weekly in 1995 as the alternative newsweekly’s first calendar editor.