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And I said “so how was your day?” he said “it’s great, you know what I’m gonna do when I grow up?” and I said “what?” And he goes “I’m gonna ski for money” – Darla Hall
“School fucking sucked, dude” – Tanner Hall
“I wanted to become a filmmaker of freeskiing, and he wanted to become a freeskier, so I was like hey man be in my movie? Hey now I wasn’t.... I just bought a camera and quit school” - Eric Iberg
"pretty much this 15 year old kid introduced me to weed" - Eric Iberg
"we lived for every day, every day was an opportunity, because every day something new was created, tanner was like i dont wanna go back to school. I don’t want to go back to hollywood video, we were just straight up like THIS IS THE SHIT, why would we do anything else?” - Eric Iberg
"Walked into the principle office, and like picked up my backpack, basically threw the peace sign to him, gave him a big smile and thanked him for putting me on the biggest vacation of my life" – Tanner Hall
“The fact that my brother had choosen a path, set a goal, not only did he achieve it, he just shattered it, it was really fucking cool” – Tyson Hall
“If in fact travelling the world as a pro skier is going to give you the education, or experience that you will learn from, then so be it” – Glen Plake
“Basically Tanner is so good because in his little world reality and video games are the exact same thing, and when he is skiing he is in the video game” – Even Raps
“Skiing became a full on addiction for him” – Tyson Hall
“let me tell you cause I’m talking with emotion, cause this is my life right here man! I love this stuff, the first run in the pipe to get to the flat bottom to go up for your first hit, I’ll tell you what, that’s better than sex bro” – Tanner Hall
“I think there are a lot of skiers that smoke that much, Tanner just happens to be the one that’s able to win a contest too” - Evan Raps
“What tanner needs in life is somebody to be a brain for him, like that’s the thing, we are so alike, if we think too much it goes up to the brain and fucks with the rest of the body, it’s just not working” - Mickeal Deschhenaux
“Not too much people can say that they are so passionate about something in life that they will wake up and risk there life daily to almost die for” – Tanner Hall
“The reason why Tanner and all these skiers take the risks they do is beacause they love it, and that’s it. You only know what I mean if you really love something, it’s like you would die for your wife, and that is the only thing that is relateable probably to someone who doesn’t ski” - Eric Iberg
“This life I am living, what I do everyday, I mean it’s unreal, It’s every single day I ski, every single day I I’m out in the mountains with my friends, I love so much, It’s like the righteous day, the fullest day, it’s every day man, it is an absolute blessing to be doing what I’m doing and never will I take it for granted” – CR Johnson
“Its not a question like what’s he going to try and do, its about what he is about to go and do” – CR Johnson
“No I don’t think I could be happy without skiing man, I don’t, I need that in my life to escape” – Tanner Hall
“The hardest part for me in this last year, just sitting down and dealing with my injury, it was probably just keeping my sanity, I had a a lot of time to reflect, and it can make your mind bounce like a pinball in the middle of your head’ – Tanner Hall
“it’s like burning inside of you that you know you are going to be in this position for a long time, and it’s not like it was before, going to Xgames after that it was tough man, cause you know not being able to do, like I said what you love to do it sucks man” – Tanner Hall
“Getting back on my skis as soon as possible, because without it, man there is an emptyness in me. And I think a lot of people can see that I’m not same person I used to be” – Tanner Hall
"Death can come in many different ways and how i look at it if you die on the mountain, you know, if its your time to go...to me you've been kind of blessed"- Tanner Hall
“When people are talking to me and I zone out, cause it happens a lot, you know, it happens a lot men” – Tanner Hall
“I find myself a lot of times having a conversation with him, and you will see him not even fucking listening to you”
“You know he brings up something and you are bringing up your point, and then where the fuck is tanner, and you’re like hey buddy” – Eric Iberg
“There is just a lot going on up in there, you know what I mean, I think I got ADD like crazy, but I think there is no such thing as ADD, I just think that I got.. uh.. I just got.. I just got ADD” – Tanner Hall
“What is going on here, like is god throwing us curveballs on purpose, like are we not put here on this earth to ski, are we not meant to make these movies, and you start thinking what its going to be like if your homeboy’s not there with you anymore man” – Tanner hall
"I would break everything all over again to get him right back here you know what I mean" – Tanner Hall
"My family inspires me, my friends inspire me, my brother just got married that inspired the shit out of me man, Cr Johnson inspires me you know what im saying. Johnson inspires me just ‘cause he was the most richeous human being in this world. thats my best friend no matter where he is, he is looking out for me. I feel like he stands with me every solitary day somewhere somehow. and to have that on your side that's got to be my guardian angel. it's pretty sick you know. not too many people can say their best friend is their guardian angel. Richeous." – Tanner Hall
STEEP
“I didn’t choose my life in the mountains, it just happened. I tried to become a normal person, and have a normal job, but that didn’t work.” – Doug Coombs
“As soon as I got out of jail, I went skiing. As soon as I got out of broken legs, I went skiing. That’s where I had to go to make it all right again, the rest of the world was total chaos.” –Glen Plake
“We are mountain people, this is what we do, this is how we live.”
“The risks are very high, but I think most of us have decided that the risk is worth it.”
“For me, As soon as the winter stops, I get a week off and ill start dreaming about skiing.”
“This concept of strapping these boards on your feet, you know if you actually sit down and think about it, what a concept, you know, that’s great, couple boards on your feet sliding down the mountain, you know how much fun is that!” - Eric Pehota
“If there is no risk, there is no adventure, I think adventure is a great part of life. For me it’s why am I living, it is to have some adventure.” – Bill Briggs
“I don’t know, you dream about what you want to accomplish in your life, and I don’t know if many people get a chance to fulfil that, but that was it, I had at that point, fulfilled a dream, totally.” – Bill Briggs
“Every mountaineer, and every skier, realizes the mountain is a living, breathing thing, when they are not happy, or just pissed off, they’re blowing, you have to read that, you can’t just say I’m gonna do this, even though they’re telling you not today, ‘cause that’s when you get in trouble. Being able to feel what the mountains are saying to you is huge, they’re alive, you know they’re totally alive, and they will make you more alive or they make you dead if you don’t read them. You know there is always bad luck, and I don’t know where bad luck comes in but it’s definitely there.” – Doug Coombs
“When I go out I become more alive, and it’s probably the endorphins that everybody talks about, and I guess the more you produce, the more you want, so I think I have been producing a lot for a long time, because I want them all the time, I just love skiing.” – Doug Coombs
“But anything that produces this much joy in people’s lives, is worth a certain amount of risk,
physical risk, emotional risk, whatever, but how much risk it’s worth is an open question.” - Lou Dawson
“Extreme skiing is a way of life, it was my way to become a man.” - Stefano De Benedetti
“When you live in touch with the mountain, when you spent most of your time in the mountains, your vision changes completely, and after 3 or 4 years I could see the possibility to ski where nobody saw it.” - Stefano De Benedetti
“In the perfect moment I was so concentrated, there was no space for other thoughts, when you want to make a turn and you are at the top of a steep vertical wall, I mean when you are in a situation that if you fall you die, everything changes. You think very much about turning, you think very much about where to turn, and you do all this in a very special way, you act like a different person, you act with all yourself, you are making a completely different experience, and in some way you are discovering yourself. This is the magic of the mountain, you can accept to die for this, you don’t want to die, but to live so close to the possibility of dying, you understand what is real important and what not. And this makes you a better person. It’s probably the highest moment of my life, because in the perfect moment because all I felt to be was a little superman.” - Stefano De Benedetti
“You know back then I didn’t have a kids, I didn’t have a wife it was me. me, I, I, me, me, right, you just keep stepping it up, you just want to keep pushing it, see how big and steep you could go, without killing yourself. It’s the ultimate paradox, the closer you come to dying the more alive you feel, and that’s so true. You know if you just sit around on a couch and watch TV, how can you appreciate that cold beer and that nice big hearty steak, but you eat soup and live in a cold icy environment for 2 or 3 weeks, man you get back and that burger is the best burger you’d ever had in your life, and cold or warm doesn’t matter that beer can be piss warm and it will be the nicest beer you’d had in your life, I can tell you that right now.” - Eric Pehota
“One of my sponsors had read about this extreme skiing competition, and said we like to send you there, and I said sure I mean that’d be great. And they said if you don’t win now you have to come back and paint the building, and I didn’t realize they were just joking on that but I was thinking ‘I don’t want to paint that building’” – Doug Coombs
“Just thought, well I’m either gonna die on this run cause it’s going to avalanche, or it’s going to be the best run of my life, so I’m just gonna do it, it’s worth it. And I skied down, and it was just effortless, got to the bottom and it was like I can’t imagine that I just did that, I would love to just do that again, so we did.” - Emily Gladstone
“There was nobody telling me that lifts close at 5.” – Doug Coombs
“Ingrid is special in that, she is a guy with a pony tail in the manner she skis.” - Scott Gaffney
“If I saw this woman ripping Squaw, sitting in the chair, and the guy would be like ‘wow that guy rips’. And then I just kind of sit there and go yea I know that chick, and yea she rips.” - Scott Gaffney
“I take these risks cause it’s the ultimate, man. It’s all about the powder and just the experience of being out in the mountains. Flying in the helicopter is the other half of it, getting dropped off on some crazy peak where the heli has to, like, come in sideways to just stop and hover and let you out, that’s like the best landing ever, and there is just room enough for you up there.
Deep powder that’s all that matters.” – Seth Morrison
“And there are a lot of deaths here, because the mountains are so intense, they are so gnarly, so big, they can be so friendly one day and so mean the next. I’ve never been really shocked when a friend died skiing, and then the next friend died skiing, and then the next friend died skiing, and then you’re like, I don’t know what it is, it’s weird, you just become numb to it. It’s still terrible and you don’t like it, but it doesn’t make you stop. I hate seeing people that I know die, but I know it’s gonna happen, I think that’s just part of it. It’s like saying you know someone who has died in a car accident, you know, what’s worse? Car accident or falling of the mountain? I don’t know, I think car accident is worse, at least when they’re falling of the mountain they loved what they were doing.” – Doug Coombs
“I’ve never really taken skiing that seriously, I always looked at it kind of like a hobby, you know I’m going to get a real job, real career, you know, get with the program, but what always happened is, you know, you have the opportunity to get with the program, and then there will be like a ski trip, and it will be like, yea you know, I’ll do the ski trip first and then I’ll get with the program, you know 20 years later and like skiing always takes precedence over getting with the program. At some point you have to realise like, okay maybe this is more like a full time thing and I should just accept it as it is, it’s my destiny.” – Andrew McLean.
“Those of us that want the risk, and that want the challenge, are going to do it one way or another, whenever it’s on the mountains or it’s on a racetrack or floating down a river. This should be a common thing for men to be doing, I think we get a little bit to safe in our lives these days.” - Bill Briggs
“It’s a different world, it’s extreme, you risk your life, but if we decide to live this way, it can give you a lot of pleasure and emotion, and that’s what you need in your life.” - Stephane Dan
“I’d be lying if I said I was never scared, but I think the risks are well worth it.” – Eric Pehota
CR
LIVE YOUR LIFE, LOVE YOUR LIFE. DON'T REGRET... LIVE, LEARN, AND MOVE FORWARD POSITIVELY. –CR
"It will take a little bit of time. Its going to take a lot of
effort, a lot of energy. And I'll give it that. I have to, I have to
because that is what I want for my life and what I want with my life I'm
willing to work for and what I'm willing to work for I'm definatly
willing to achieve." -CR Johnson
"Its too easy too give up in the things that are hard in life"
-CR Johnson
"Every icy day, every deep pow day… EVERY day is a blessing. When we
can appreciate every experience for all that it is, we will never need
nor want more."
"Only the things that you truly love will you pursue with that
energy, and for me my family, my friends, and skiing, that's it for me,
that's my life. The joy I get from skiing...that's worth dying for." -
R.I.P. CR Johnson
Random qoutes
And people asked me if it’s worth it, if this was worth it. I said, the thing is, the happiness that I feel when I'm skiing is unlike any happiness I have ever experienced. But the sadness that consumes me during the long periods that the happiness is gone is unlike any sadness I've ever had, too. It is bottomless that makes me feel hopeless and sad and ugly. And I can't decide which one is more affecting. Can I live without the happiness, can I live with the sadness? I don't know, I don't know anything anymore.
"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."- Ralph Waldo Emerson
