Meathead East Coast Skiing Adventure Movies & Films

The winter of 2007 started off mildly (to put it uhhh... mildly). Burlington, VT reached 65 degrees on Jan. 3 and the snowpack for much of the month was dismal. The whole crew was afraid we'd have to make Snow Gods 2 and chronicle another miserable winter.

But the Gods cut us a break this year and salvation finally came on Monday, February 5 with an intriguing weather report from central NY state. "Heavy lake effect snows" and "intense isolated accumulations" we're the phrases that caught our eye. It seemed that Lake Ontario (famous for dumping snow on the Oswego county and Tug Hill region) had finally decided that winter was here. With 2 feet already on the ground in some places and more on the way, calls we're made to the Meathead commando squad to see who wanted to shred the farm fields of NY.

Erik Olson and Tyler Secrest hesitantly accepted the mission. Both being native to the central NY region, the first question they asked was... where can we ski? It was a valid inquiry since the area is known for being flat as a pancake. However, as with most things we do, we were determined to make it work. All of Monday was spent carefully surveying topographical maps of the towns expected to get the most snow. Armed with these sketchy diagrams, an assortment of shovels, and the Meathead credit card, we left on Tuesday for the unknown...

To put the rest of that week in a nutshell:
1) It snowed really hard (4-5 inches per hour at times)
2) It snowed a lot (some towns ended up with 130 inches)
3) We found mini-bowls, pillows, sand pits, glades, chutes, cows and crazy locals
4) We stayed at Super 8 motels and shot a lot of Super 8mm film
5) Erik dropped the biggest cliff of his life
6) Tyler looks funny when he eats

You can check out all the action in this year's movie, Wanderland