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Level 1 productions AK venture

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dweezileast
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I like to stay up to date on the blog on the level 1 homepage- www.level1productions.com. Its updated frequently throughout the season, and reading about the L1 crew's experiences makes watching their film the following fall a lot more enjoyable. The newest entry is a long piece on a heli trip to alaska. The whole write up struck me as being really well written and sheds a lot of light on how challenging backountry in general and more specifically alaska can be. Take the time and check it out, it's well worth the read
May 31 2008 9:58PM
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Jordan.j
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sounds like a plan
May 31 2008 11:07PM
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Tanner-D
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realtime had no Ak lines but maybe level 1 racked some cash iin and was able to got Ak

Jun 1 2008 12:05AM
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Karcher
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i know alaska is really cool and all. but it never looks that cool in ski movies. it seems like it would be a lot funner to do. Its like all those shots are the same. i loved level 1's movie because it wasnt a really high budget movie. they just shreded around with sleds which is really cool
Jun 1 2008 12:22AM
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jason...
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i would rather watch chest deep baker pow with pillow lines and cliffs and shit than an open face steepline in alaska
Jun 1 2008 2:18AM
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TotesMcgotes
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Exactly my thoughts...SO many ski movies have AK in them.  Its just not exciting or awe inspiring at all anymore.
Jun 1 2008 4:21AM
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aurora.
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^...i might be biased...but alaska kicks ass...i love the chugach...

but that was a really well-written and thoughtful article by level 1. very legit and it cleared up basic misconceptions that everyone seems to have about AK...
Jun 1 2008 4:50AM
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iceCream
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I read this article and thought it was well written too. and i like the pictures. For the one who think that these guys should not go to AK you are silly. it would just be a stop in the progression of the skiers and the movies.
Jun 1 2008 10:44AM
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dweezileast
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at the end of the article, berman talks about bumping into travis rice's crew filming with two helicopters, one for athlete transport, the other for a gyro-mounted hd camera. he said the brainfarm crew dropped about 250k for heli time, while L1 dropped around 5 grand. I dont know what part of that implies that L1 is high budget now, but they scraped together whatever money they could find and took the trip.
Jun 1 2008 4:35PM
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