Meathead East Coast Skiing Adventure Movies & Films

By: Erik Olson

April greeted New England with warm temperatures and abundant sunshine, perfect for a spring park shoot. After some quick organizing by the meatboss, Ski Sundown was ready to offer its services and build some custom park features for our own private shoot. Leaving from the Meathead HQ in Burlington, Geoff, Andy Parry “with an A”, Shea Flynn, and myself gathered our gear and headed down to Connecticut for a few days of filming.

Day 1

Even though Sundown was technically closed for the season they decide to run a chair for us which was pretty awesome to say the least. The first feature was an eight pack of mini booters that was built the night before. This kept us busy while the park crew was working on setting up the infamous Ski Sundown U rail, which had a pretty good sized gap to the landing. After Shea owned the mini line with his every variation of a flip run, we moved to the up rail. This was the kind of feature that you either landed or you ate tons of shit on. With that being said, it wasn’t too long until almost everyone had called it quits. Shea, who was determined to land his trick, took about 10 more laps than anyone else.

Day2

On the second day our goal was to transform the rail feature into a super poppy table. After a few hours with the cat and shovels, the transformation had taken place. We successfully recycled a feature, Meatheads go Green! We were even able to get this crazy old boom crane on the deck, allowing Geoff to be perched in a bucket 20 feet up getting shots. Everyone was psyched on the jump and even the sore Andy Parry couldn’t resist after he had declared that he was sitting this feature out.

After several hours and a few minor modifications the session then began to fizzle out. As the light faded away it was time to position the boom crane and for Andy to perform the world’s largest Treecrest! Personally, I thought the idea was kind of crazy but it worked out and the session end with a bang. Huge thanks to Jarrod for his accommodations and everyone at Sundown for all their efforts in putting on a successful shoot!