Chris Benchetler's 2010 self edited footage. Filmed on location at: Mammoth Mountain, Italian Alps, St. Anton Austria, and Canada. Check it out!
Eric Pollard and His Dog Kaya get some runs before Mt. Hood Meadows opens.
Thank You is exactly what the title states; a thank you to everyone who watches Nimbus.
Thank You begins by interviewing individuals from every walk of life about how they predict the winter. The movie then recaps the best of the last three years of Nimbus. Enjoy!
Nimbus Independent was started in 2007 by Eric Pollard in collaboration with Pep Fujas, Andy Mahre, and Chris Bencheter. The four like minded skiers began Nimbus to bring a different perspective to the world of ski movies.
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En Route Departure follows the Nimbus crew from Early season riding in Mammoth Mountain California, through a Military Mountain Warfare training facility to Italy. It's a great adventure, and filmed and edited in the Nimbus Webisode format.
En Route Nomads is the 10th full length webisode from Nimbus Independent. Nomads follows Pep Fujas, Blake Nyman, Anthony Boronowski, Andy Mahre, Chris Benchetler and Eric Pollard from Canada to Utah on a road trip documented from start to finish.
This edit is a short version of our full length 40 minute film titled "en route departure". if you like the edit you will really like the full length movie. en route departure documents two months of travel with the nimbus crew. everything that goes with a ski trip is portrayed in this movie; amazing powder, terrible conditions, airports, road trips, culture, etc. the en route series is an attempt to depart from the norm of ski film making. instead of jump after jump, en route departure is about the people, places and skiing along the way. ian cosco, bene mayr and christian sirianni join the original nimbus crew: pep fujas, eric pollard chris benchetler and blake nyman for a great adventure.
En Route Hokkaido documents a two week ski trip to the island of Hokkaido, Japan. There the Nimbus crew linked up with Black Diamond Lodge to do a mixture of snowmobile access, touring, boot packing off the road, chairlift access, and night skiing. Pep Fujas, Andy Mahre, Eric Pollard and Chris Benchetler ski while Justin Wiegand and Ike Smith film. If you are interested in a trip to Hokkaido Japan get in touch with Black Diamond Lodge: bdlodge.com.
This is a re-edited section from En Route Nomads. Chris Benchetler and Anthony Boronowski and John Jackson take a zone in British Columbia apart at the seems. Benchetler sacked up and hit the feature he broke his collar bone on in 2008. Not bad Chris, not bad at all.
En Route Alaska follows Chris Benchetler, Eric Pollard and Byrce Phillips on a trip to Haines, Alaska. One of the best trips Nimbus has ever been on. One day travel to Alaska, three days skiing, and one day travel home. So much fun in just 3 days!
En Route Sled BC follows Chris Benchetler, Andy Mahre and Eric Pollard on a snowmobile trip in British Columbia, Canada. The crew skis in blizzards and blue bird conditions on some of the best terrain North America has to offer. If you would like to stay in the amazing cabin we stayed in at Whistler contact: braundevelopments.com/wp-content/uploads/braun_sunridgeplateau2.pdf. Nimbus Independent was started in 2007 by Eric Pollard in collaboration with Pep Fujas, Andy Mahre, and Chris Benchetler. The four like minded skiers began Nimbus to bring a different perspective to skiing. For more please subscribe on Vimeo and visit nimbusindependent.com and facebook.com/nimbusindependent.
En Route Arlberg follows Pep Fujas and Eric Pollard on a journey to Austria where they meet up with Roman Rohrmoser to ski Arlberg, Austria. Natural jumps, spines, and a quick storm ski session all packed into three days of skiing. Interested in going to ski in the same place? Check out: http://www.vorarlberg.travel.
Chris Benchetler's 2011 video footage from Nimbus Independent and Teton Gravity Research. Filmed on location at: Mammoth Mountain, the California backcountry, Jackson Hole, Wyoming and Haines, Alaska. Edited by Chris himself. Check it out.
In April Chris Hendrickson scored a trip to Valdez along with his brother Tim, Powder magazine's John Stifter, and Atomic's Chris Benchetler, as they won the Atomic Alaska Giveaway contest that was postponed a year due to the eruption of Mount Redoubt last April. In addition to winning the free trip to Valdez Heli Camps, the Hendrickson's scored a free pair of Atomic Bent_Chetler skis. They were lucky enough to score 4 perfect bluebird days. Here is Chris cruising in Valdez.
Aether is a bit of a mash-up of footage of all four En Route webisodes from season four 2011. I like to take footage from edits we have already made, and re-edit it into a different format. Just like "Thank You", Aether is a more artistic perspective of skiing.
This is the italy action from the webisode en route departure.
Eric Pollard and Erin Valverde Pollard make this commercial for Powder Magazine
Chris Benchetler and Eric Pollard in Italy on snowball vision quest. Witness the best shot of Eric's entire snowball throwing career.
Live Fire is a section from En Route Departure.
So much fun to shoot. We filmed this after a huge snow storm cleared out of Mammoth. We drove to Nevada and did some sled access at a United States Marine Corps Mountain Warefare Training Facility.
Pretty much full on military zone, we could hear gun fire going off in the background as we were skiing. Crazy snow-tanks and troops on skis.
Skiing was great. I'm going back for sure.
Nimbus OGs; kaya and zissou battle for a part in the next webisode.
En Route Camp B.C. follows Anthony Boronowski, Julien Regnier and Eliel Hindert on a snow camping mission up into Callaghan, British Columbia.
En Route Cascadia follows Andy Mahre, Bryce Phillips and Eric Pollard on a road trip through Washington's best ski resorts; Crystal Mountain, Alpental, Stevens Pass and White Pass.
Nimbus School is a section from our DVD release Hunting Yeti. It's always a challenge to re-edit footage that you have already used and make it into something new. Combining ski visuals with political undertones and setting the edit to Supertramp's "School" completely changed the pace and overall tone of this piece. It's always fun to play with different formats and come up with a new approach to editing footage. We shot all the portraits of average skiers in Oregon. Skiers from all walks of life who find what they are looking for on the ski hill gave interviews of their perspectives on skiing. We had a dentist, carpenter, butcher, pilot, bar tender, landscaper, etc.
Good times at Mt Hood Meadows with Dylan Hood and Eric Pollard.
Timberline Backcountry is a section from En Route Plan B. Sammy Carlson slays Hood in this section, and Eric Pollard and Andy Mahre have some good shots as well.
Nimbus Independent's first webisode from their fourth season.
A little C grade footage set to the tunes of The Black Lips. Check out the Nimbus filmers getting it!
Pep Fujas, Chris Benchetler, Andy Mahre, Christian Sirianni, Sean Logan and Eric Pollard shredding the Nevada and California Backcountry.
This Just In! Chris Benchetler and Anthony Boronowski shred the bc of BC...
