March 2005_utah

Day 1. What a couple of days it has been so far...The mission crew hit up the Brighton in-bounds and backcountry on Thursday. The weather delivered amazing conditions for shooting. High pressure set in over Utah state wide. At 6 am, we all met at the team and crew met at the base of BCC. By 7am the clouds moved through over Brighton and the sun came out. We hadn't seen the sun like this in over a week.
After a briefing in the morning over begals and coffee, we set up for the first shoot. By 8am, we were loading the Mt. Millicent chair with mountain manager, Randy Doyle. Randy guided us to the top, he briefly spoke with ski patrol and let us loose to set up for the first shot. We capitalized on the early break by shooting on Mt. Millicent's open bowls. The ski patrol was kind enough to let us in on their stashes by reserving half of scree bowl to shoot on. Major props to the men and women of the Brighton ski patrol. Before long, we were getting the goods-Mt. Millicent, scree bowl, mary chutes and Clayton Peak. All of the morning shots were sublime...
In the afternoon, we decided to get some afternoon light shots on the west-nw face of Mt. Millicent. The hike was slow as we set in the boot pack on the ridge. As we hiked, we surveyed the mountainous landscpae around us, set up some hiking shots and made our way to the top. Once on top, we discussed the nex shoot, picked out defining landmarks to guide the team off the peak and spoke about possible dangers. As I set up in the basin below, I radioed up describing the lines. The next series of footage was amazing. You'll have to see the footage to believe what happened that day...
Max