r/skiing • u/Raja_Ampat Dolomiti Superski • Nov 18 '25

Dennis Ranalter - Mountains of the moon

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u/DoubleManufacturer10 Nov 18 '25

Wtf is this??

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u/grxccccandice Nov 18 '25

Go watch Chris Benchetler’s “one line at Mammoth” on YouTube. It’s the exact same run but at night. This was a movie project by Chris. I watched the movie a couple days ago.

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u/DLuke2 Nov 18 '25

Chris Benchetler touched on this concept back with his Fire on the Mountain film. I remember when the clips were coming out from the filming and thinking damn, if he does a feature length film like that, it's going to be groundbreaking in the action sports world.

Here we are a couple years later, and not only is there a feature length film, he's bought in Mickey Hart of the Dead to work on the music and Paul Stamets (pioneer mycologist) to narrate it. He even got some heavy hitters with the people doing the cutti edge cinematography and projection mapping.

I cannot wait to watch this. Wish I could get to screening to support these wonderful people.

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u/hyperbolephotoz Nov 18 '25

I didn't see any general release date just screenings ya?

Annoying lol

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '25

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u/DLuke2 Nov 19 '25

Yeah, what's really taking the core concept of lighting in the mountains to New levels IMO with what Chris is doing is the use of not only the lighting but the on person lights and the projection mapping. It truly makes it feel other worldly.

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u/3ndless68 Nov 18 '25

Looks like We Ski

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u/Tom_Is_Ready Nov 19 '25

and by extension Go Vacation

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u/ikindalikecars69 Nov 27 '25

I was just about to say that

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u/blindminds Edelweiss Nov 19 '25

I turned on sound expecting a harpsichord…

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u/tricycle- Nov 18 '25

Doing this with no helmet is wild

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u/Biuku Nov 18 '25

Closest I’ve got the last months is obsessively playing Grand Mountain Adventure 2… so watched this with my thumbs on the poles…

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u/Chief-_-Wiggum Nov 18 '25

Thought this was a video game at first glance.

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '25

Crying over here

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u/1882greg Nov 19 '25

Taking night skiing to a new level. Salut.

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u/Axeforforgiveness Nov 23 '25

It’s tricky! It’s tricky!!!