“Men wanted for hazardous journey. Small wages. Bitter cold. Long months of complete darkness. Constant danger. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in case of success.” Ernest Shackelton placed this add in an British Newspaper looking for men to explore the arctic with him in the 1800’s.

The key to the success so far with “Deeper” has been the people behind it.  This made picking the right people to work with essential for the project to happen. Everyone stepped up and gave everything they had.  There was no drama.  That is not to say things were easy.    At times everyone of us wanted to call the movie “Suffer” instead of “Deeper.”  For me it came hiking home into an oncoming storm in Tahoe with 60 pounds on my back, darkness quickly approaching on the fourth 14 hour day in a row with no more food left.  For Ryland it was probably searching for a camp site at 10 pm 17 hours into his day.  For Jonaven I would imagine it was after his dogs had broken into his food supply forcing him to go on half rations until the weather broke and we got a resupply.  With out the hard times the highs would not have been so high.

In my twenty plus years of snowboarding this one will be put on the trophy shelf right next to my first year in Jackson Hole, first time to Alaska or the first year my home mountain allowed snowboarding.  We are now digesting the season, logging footage, cutting webisode and getting ready to do it all over again next year.

I wanted to give a huge thanks to the people who made this fist year so special.

The Filmers.  They are the unsung heroes of the film.  Finding filmers that were willing to live in tents and hike there huge packs for days to shoot one line.

Chris Edmands.  I would not have done this project with out him.  He showed me with his movie “My Own Two Feat” that bringing cameras deep in the backcountry was possible.

Garry Pendygrasse.   Garry was the first guy I ever filmed 15 years ago.  He 27 days camped on a glacier and other then hating the tent zipper never complained.

Pete O’Brien.  Pete woke up at 3AM and hiked 8 hours to shoot one line in Utah and I blew up at the bottom.

Guido Perini. Invaluable European FIlmer.  He hiked threw the night to film Xavier and I ride a line at sunrise.

Matty Herriger.  He has the heaviest pack in the business and took it to places very few have taken that size of a pack to.

The Riders.

Jonaven Moore, Travis Rice, Ryland Bell, Xavier De le Rue, Johan Ollofsen, Forest Shearer

The Guides

Tom Burt, Scott Newsome, Fan Fan

Photographers

Dan Milner, Jeff Petterson, Tero Repo, Chris Bezamat, Eric Hostetter, Seth Lightcap, Will Wissman

TGR

My brothers Steve and Todd. Liz, Josh and Keith.

The Sponsors

Swatch, Recco, O’Neill, Brunson, Arc’teryx, Clif Bar, Spark R&D

Man Camp

“Ryland trying to get a view of the crux in Tahoe

Studying snow pits at the TGR Backcountry Workshop in December at Grand Targee

Racing the sun back to the parking lot at the end of a long day

Edmands and Seth on the edge and loving it

Rice gets in a few turns before lining up the cross court roller at the bottom

This was one of the coldest days of the year.  When it is this cold we would wake up and get going because it was too cold to sit around for breakfast.

Tom Burt negotiates his way through the glacier in a white out while Travis Rice and I follow.

Edmands on his way to another “perch of doom” in the moring twilight

The walking guide book, Seth Lightcap, putting in the booter in the High Seierra.

Alaska

The couch is a little hard but the view is killer

Aaron Ward showed us around Utah.  After I sent this line he decided to get some for himself.

Utah

Tahoe wake up call.

Europe

Scott Newsome on the final push toward Mt  McConkey

Edmands, Ondercine, Ryland and Seth wet, tired and happy.