Through The Decades: 2000's With Warren Miller

Through The Decades" explores 70 years of cinematic breakthroughs, history making, comedic genius, athletic feats, standout moments and the pure joys of celebrating winter with Warren Miller films.

Ride (2000): Welcome to the Millennium. 

The film crew headed to Greenland for the first time.

 

Cold Fusion (2001)

Legends Glen Plake, Seth Morrison and Shane Szocs headed to Verbier, Switzerland with the help of Doug Coombs as tail guide. Coombs appeared in the 2006 film, "Off The Grid" as well before his untimely death later that year.

 

Storm (2002)

Athletes Hilaree Nelson, Rick Armstrong, Doug Stoup, John Griber and Jerome Poncet head to South Georgia Island and were caught in high speed winds, forcing them to retreat after achieving some rowdy objectives. 

 

Impact (2004)

Big Mountain skiing queen Ingrid Backstrom appeared in her first Warren MIller in the 2004 film, "Impact".

 

Higher Ground (2005)

Women's superpipe pioneer and freeskiing athlete Sarah Burke headed to Mike Wiegele Heli Skiing in British Columbia in the 2005 film, "Higher Ground". This was the first time the young Canadian was featured in a Warren MIller film. Burke passed in a skiing accident in 2012 but her impact on the industry and the sport of skiing lives on today. 

 

 

Higher Ground (2005)

Intern Andrew Mairs appeared on-screen in a staff-favorite spoof. Mairs is one of the senior film editors at Warren Miller Entertainment today.

 

 Playground (2007)

Reffered to as "Burton Smalls", future pro snowboarders graced the Warren Miller big screen in the 2007 film, "Playground". The featured groms included future Olympians Kyle Mack and Taylor Gold, World Cup and X-Games athletes Gabe Ferguson and Ben Ferguson, as well as future Sims Snowboards athlete Harrison Gray, Salomon pro Nils Mindnich, brother Hans Mindnich, Ben Watts and Brock Couch.

 

Children of Winter (2008)

The 2008 film "Children of Winter" featured Points North Heli Skiing (PNH), which at the time, was celebrating its 10-year anniversary.  PNH has been featured in several Warren Miller Films since.

 

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With 70 years years of filmmaking under our belt, Warren Miller Entertainment is thrilled to be releasing our 70th anniversary film, Volkswagen presents Warren Miller's Timelessin fall of 2019. Learn about the film and the 2019 tour here. 

 

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