Return to Send'er (2019) - full transcript

[match striking]
[flame crackling]

[serene music]

- [Narrator] In the far reaches

of the North American continent

is a hostile landscape
of ice and snow.

Living in these alpine
regions, we find a species

of human inhabitants as
daring as they are bizarre.

They cherish this
world's simplicity.

They find bliss in the
casual glide and contentment

in the wondrous places their
magic sticks take them.

Winter's snowy blanket
has the power to transform



an inanimate landscape

into the mother of all
amusement facilities.

Where those who
venture are limited

only by what the
body can handle,

and their minds can imagine.

This rare breed of
creature seeks, the now.

Amongst this species, are
a mind blowing rookie,

an old wise man,

a veritable spinning top,

and the human incarnation

of like father, like son.

- [Skier] Yoo!

- [Narrator] Four strange men

and a handful of their pack
who all share a common impulse,



to emerge from their
summer hibernation

and return to the mountains
to bloody send 'er.

♪ Freedom

[upbeat rock music]

- Are you guys ready to send it?

- [Skier] Let's go!

♪ Search through my heart
in a sky full of eyes ♪

♪ Leap in and dance
with the blind ♪

♪ Feels like my hands have
been forced, tied, pried ♪

♪ Can't go nowhere but behind

♪ Look at the streets

♪ People is losing their lives

♪ People is losing their mind

♪ Go cop a gun

♪ Cop a plea

♪ Cop a room at the nine

♪ Look up and shoot at the sky

♪ I should be used
to this life ♪

♪ Who am I, useless

♪ So why should
I even just try ♪

♪ I'm trying to
break out the coop ♪

♪ Lead a flock, raid the roof

♪ Yeah, and go somewhere
new in my mind ♪

♪ I just keep
shooting and dying ♪

♪ Shooting and trying

♪ Double, I'm true to design

♪ I think there's gotta be
something I ain't even seen ♪

♪ Man, I ain't just no
proof of the times ♪

♪ Times

♪ Take me back to
the West Coast ♪

♪ Where the sun shines all day

♪ Weaving through the
heart of Los Angeles ♪

♪ To the San Francisco bay

♪ Take me down to
the southland ♪

♪ Oh, I need that humid air

♪ I put two feet through
the old church door ♪

♪ Holy water run
through my hair ♪

♪ Yeah, yeah

♪ Freedom

♪ Got freedom on my mind

♪ Truth is I am free today

♪ Please don't true my mind

♪ Yes I do

♪ Yeah, freedom

- [Skier] Yeah!

♪ True desire true design

♪ Got freedom on my mind

♪ On my mind

♪ On my mind

♪ On my mind

♪ Yeah, you can still
be who you wanna be ♪

♪ That's your difference,
you got vision ♪

♪ Even though some
things go wrong ♪

♪ You still so driven

♪ More transmission

♪ Just keep riding fast
on that jungle pass ♪

♪ Those thunder cats
and your hundred miles ♪

♪ This wonderland, long
as you go the distance ♪

♪ No provisions

♪ Vision

♪ Take me back to
the West Coast ♪

♪ Catch the sun before it sets

♪ I drank a 40 in the
middle of your headlights ♪

♪ Run your fingers down my leg

- That was mad, bro

♪ My heart's forever open

♪ It doesn't matter where I go

♪ I got my roots
deep in California ♪

♪ But the road got
into my bones ♪

♪ Oh my, oh my my

♪ Got into my bones

♪ I said oh my, oh my my

♪ Got into my bones

♪ Freedom

♪ Got freedom on my mind

♪ Truth is I am free today

♪ Please don't true my mind

♪ Yes I do

♪ Freedom

♪ Truth is I am free today

♪ Please don't true my mind

♪ Freedom, on my mind

♪ On my mind

♪ On my mind

♪ Freedom

[typewriter clicking]

[gentle music]
[birds chirping]

- [Narrator] This small village
in the Kootenay Mountains

of interior, British
Columbia has managed

to harbor a rather
remarkable secret.

A secret that's been molded

and nurtured by the community.

By the almighty Ullr.

And by the bountiful treasures

of a throwback ski
hill at the end

of a 10 kilometer,
dead end dirt road.

But, it's a secret

that shall be kept, no longer.

The secret is this gentleman.

- [Sam] My name's Sam Kuch.

I grew up in Nelson, BC.

- [Narrator] Chances are
you've never heard of Sam Kuch.

But, you're going to want
to remember the name.

Because this 21 year
old is a harbinger

of skiing's future.

Ladies and gentleman,
behold the wizardry

of the Kootenay Kid, Sam Kuch.

[intense orchestral music]

♪ They're in a time

♪ Between the keep

♪ A bell in the dawn

♪ Is sinking deep

♪ Forcing a burning love again

- [Sam] Woo!

♪ Down down
- Oh yeah.

That's not so bad.

♪ That is

- [Videographer] Woo!

Holy shit!

- Woo!

- [Videographer] Yeah, get it!

[intense drum beating]

[Sam whooping]

- [Videographer] Sam, awesome.

What's good?

- Oh yeah, she went!

- [Narrator] A rather
astonishing fact about Sam Kuch

is that his
remarkable whirly bird

capabilities were
nurtured out in the wild.

- Yeah, I never really
skied park growing up.

Whitewater didn't have
a actual terrain park.

We learned all our tricks
just from building jumps

or hitting all the
jumps around Whitewater,

in the general like community

was skiing with your friends

and vibing off them,

and we didn't
necessarily need a park

to learn what we got.

♪ Without you

♪ Fire

♪ Fuck you

♪ And I'll come for

♪ Without you

♪ Give you

♪ All my

♪ Of all this world

♪ Without you

- [Sam] One of my good friends

that I'll ski with
is Trace Cooke.

He has also shaped
my skiing a lot.

Kind of playing
off what he does.

♪ One night

♪ Defends

♪ Spit down

♪ Swallow

- He's always going full send.

♪ Slow down

♪ Not again

♪ And I'm alone

♪ So go into

♪ Refused to go

♪ Let it go

♪ Down far

♪ Let it go

[skier laughing]

[skier yelling]

- A day after a
hard day of skiing

and sending with
your buddies is,

it's hard to match that.

- Woo!
- Hell yeah, son.

Good day.

Yeah man.

They left the moon out.

- [Skier] Ah, that was fun.

- In grade five,

I was graduating
elementary school

and we had to go up and show
these posters of ourselves

and introduce ourselves
to the rest of the school

and one of the things
that I said in mine was

that I wanted to be a pro skier.

- [Baggage Checker]
Going skiing?

- [Sam] More and more my career

has given me a chance to travel,

and this year I've got
the opportunity to go down

to Squaw Valley.

- [Narrator] Well, Sam certainly
proved he had what it takes

to shine on his home terrain.

But, how would he fare in one

of the worlds most
legendary stadiums?

Let's just say, the
Kootenay Kid put

on quite the show.

[upbeat music]

[man yelling]

- [Sam] Yee!

- [Spectator] Oh my God.

♪ Gimme danger,
little stranger ♪

♪ And I feel with you at ease

♪ Give me danger,
little stranger ♪

♪ And I feel your disease

♪ There's nothing in my dreams

♪ Just some ugly memories

- It was my first
time skiing there

so I have these guys
showing me around

and the level of skiing
was pretty high up there.

♪ Yeah

♪ Now if you will be my lover

♪ I would shiver and sing

♪ But if you can be my master

♪ I will do anything

♪ There's nothing left alive

♪ But a pair of glassy eyes

♪ Raise my feelings
one more time ♪

♪ Yeah

[skier whooping]

♪ Find a little stranger

♪ Find a little stranger

♪ Say you're gonna
feel my hand ♪

♪ Say, gotta gimme danger,
wild little stranger ♪

♪ Honey, gonna feel my hand

♪ Swear your gonna
feel my hand ♪

- [Narrator] Sam Kuch had
no trouble assimilating

with the denizens
of Squallywood.

That tends to happen

when you're a likable,
quiet, badass who comes

along and does a few things

that have never
been done before.

It's safe to say there's
no shortage of that

in Sam Kuch's future.

Even his father is enthralled
by the Sam Kuch show.

- It's impressive,
you know definitely.

- [Narrator] Okay,
that's an easy one.

But, if we've left you

with any lingering doubts

whether this kid you
haven't even heard

of is one of the best
out there let's take care

of that, right now.

[rock guitar playing]

♪ You can holler, you can wail

♪ You can swing, you can flail

♪ You can--
- That was sick.

♪ Like a broken sail

♪ But I'll never give you up

♪ If I ever give you up,
my heart will surely fail ♪

♪ And after all God
can keep my soul ♪

♪ England have my bones

♪ But don't ever give me up

♪ I could never get back up

♪ When my future
starts so slow ♪

♪ I'm longing for
the moonlight ♪

♪ I'm longing for the sun

♪ No longer will I the
curse the bad I've done ♪

♪ If there's a time when
your feelings gone ♪

♪ I wanna feel it

♪ You can holler, you can wail

♪ You can blow what's
left of my right mind ♪

♪ You can swing, you can flail

♪ You can blow what's
left of my right mind ♪

♪ I don't mind

- [Skier] Yeah.

- That's sick.
- Damn.

- [Skier] Bro,
good work on that.

It's so blind for ya.

- [Sam] Just a little bit bigger

and I could've been there.

- [Skier] Aw.

♪ There's a time for
the second best ♪

♪ There's a time when
the feeling's gone ♪

♪ But it's hard to
be hard, I guess ♪

♪ When your shaking like a dog

♪ You can holler,
you can wail, ♪

♪ You can blow what's
left of my right mind ♪

♪ You can swing

- [Narrator] Do you recall
the fifth grader who dreamed

of being a pro skier?

For Sam Kuch, it's
a dream, no more.

♪ You can holler, you can wail

♪ You can blow what's
left of my right mind ♪

[Skier whooping]

- Oh my God.
- Yes.

- No way
- Yeah, buddy.

[skiers whooping]

- Yeah, Kusher!
- Come on.

- Come on, that was so sick.
- That was some heat.

Probably the best year
I've had skiing ever.

In my short 21 years of life.

Getting all these
new opportunities

and hopefully it just
skyrockets from here.

[typewriter clicking]

[soothing music]

- [Narrator] Mark Abma is
certainly more familiar

than Sam Kuch.

He's a man with an iconic past.

Having first starred in a
MatchStick Film, in 2003.

Shortly there after,
he shook the ski world

with an extraordinary segment

that garnered him a claim

as skier of the year.

From there it's
been a storied ride.

Through nearly two decades

for a gentleman who's been one

of the sport's biggest senders

and smoothest operators.

Of course, for anyone
with the slightest grasp

of mathematics, that
clearly means one thing.

Abma is no spring chicken.

The man is 39.

- But, I feel pretty good,

so I'm guessing it's working.

[Mark chuckles]

- [Narrator] But,
with a youthful vigor

and a penchant for
taking care of himself,

Mark Abma is
unquestionably a legend,

who's still got it.

[country guitar music]

♪ Ooh, we like the
big wide spaces ♪

♪ Yeah, we like a sea of faces

♪ Time is just a rubber band

♪ Time is at our command

♪ And when we look out

♪ And see you there

♪ You seem much closer and you

♪ Feel so near

♪ Yeah, you feel so near

♪ Ah

♪ Ah

♪ Well we fly by night

♪ It's like a rocket flight

♪ And baby, that's
just what it's for ♪

♪ Yeah, we fly by night

♪ It makes you feel all right

♪ You keep coming
back for more ♪

♪ Ah

[man laughs]
- Wow.

That was a huge bounce.

[laughs]

[gentle guitar music]

- [Skier] Happy birthday, buddy.

♪ Well we fly by night

♪ It's like a rocket flight

♪ And baby, that's
just what it's for ♪

♪ We fly by night

♪ It makes you feel all right

♪ You keep coming
back for more ♪

♪ Ah

♪ Ah

♪ Ah

♪ Ah

- [Narrator] It's
said that health

and happiness are
the key to longevity.

Age surely hasn't
dampened his spirits.

Has it Mark?

- I'm a pretty happy guy.

And I'm pretty much
happiest when I'm back here.

I love building.

I love getting my hands dirty

and stacking rocks,

and building cool things.

And that's ultimately
what really makes me happy

and super stoked.

This is my little
Shangri La, back here.

And, it's ever evolving
and ever growing.

Woo!

[ethereal music]

I guess I could call
myself a bit of a hippie.

I like thinking a little
bit further out there.

And we're all striving for

that escapist type,
simple living.

We're gonna get innovative here.

You're gonna love it Rubens.

I don't really feel like
I'm pushing myself anymore

so much as I'm just
enjoying myself.

Yeah, you might have found
me on the road pulled over

like a kilometer, but.

Which is why my
whole objective now.

I'm gonna do it just to
prove you wrong, Rubens.

Is just to shred
pow with my homies.

Share laughs and
hugs and high fives.

And go check out new spots

that we haven't been before.

- [Narrator] Well
I look at it myself

as the beginning really of a,

of an exploration.

That's the reason
we're exploring.

You don't know what you'll
run into on an exploration.

What the sky looks like.

What the stars look like.

Do they still
twinkle or are they

a steady light when you
get outside the atmosphere?

- [Mark] Boys!

Share laughs and
hugs and high fives.

[skiers laughing]

Shred pow with my homies.

Yeah, yeah!

Shred pow with my homies.

- [Skier] Ooh, buddy!

[upbeat sitar music]

- [Mark] Laughs and
hugs and high fives.

- [Skier] Yeah.

[skiers cheering]

- [Skier] Stomped
that landing, buddy.

- [Narrator] As in all things.

You must make your
own way through life.

- [Narrator] Well
I look at it myself

as the beginning really of a,

of an exploration.

- Hogi, Rubens and
I, we're all kind

of looking for the same thing.

As we get older, we just
appreciate those times

were we can just escape

from the
responsibilities of life.

- [Narrator] Stars.

- [Mark] To a world of wonder
and a place of passion.

- [Narrator] Stars.

- [Mark] Once were out there,

it's just eat, sleep, shred.

Shred pow with my homies.

Shred pow with my homies.

Yoo!

- [Narrator] What
the sky looks like.

[skier yelling]

What the stars look like.

What the sky looks like.

[skier yelling]

What the stars look like.

[skiers yelling]

Exploration.

Exploration.

- [Skier] Classic OG.

- [Mark] Shred pow
with my homies.

Laughs and hugs and high fives.

Shred pow with my homies.

- Yeah.

- [Mark] We don't get to
ski together that often.

So how old are you guys now?

[group laughing]

We continually make a big
effort to ski together

at least once a year.

I was just expecting
to get laughed

out of the industry
a long time ago.

- [Skier] But that was the
whole point of this trip is

if we just hang

out together we won't
make each other look bad.

[laughing]

- [Narrator] Exploration.

- Start off slow.

Taper off from there.

[laughing]

- [Narrator Exploration.

- [Mark] Shred pow
with my homies.

Shred pow with my homies.

Shred pow with my homies.

[Mark yelling]

Laughs and hugs and high fives.

Woo!

Shred pow with my homies.

[Chris yelling]

- [Chris] Ooh that
snow is amazing!

Yeah, buddy.
- Right on.

[sitar music]

- [Hoji] Woo!

- Yeah.
- Yeah, buddy!

[all yelling]
[all laughing]

- [Narrator] What
the stars look like.

What the stars look like.
- Yes.

- Stomped it!
- Yes!

- [Narrator] What
the sky looks like.

- With my homies.
- What the sky looks like.

What the stars look like.

What the sky looks like.

- Into the next.

- [Mark] I'm pretty frickin
happy with that one.

It's just an all day party.

All week long.

- That's why I'm tired.
[all laughing]

[typewriter clicking]

[techno music]

- [Karl] My name
is Karl Fostvedt

and I'm a natural born skier.

- [Narrator] They
call him Crazy Karl.

- Yes, Dude.

- [Narrator] Anyone
with a nickname

Crazy Karl, must
be a special breed.

- Yoo!

- [Narrator] You
don't just inherit

or assume that kind of name.

You've got to earn it.

Funny thing is, this Sun Valley

Idaho lad, earned it
when he was just seven.

He's always been the
antithesis of the norm.

When Karl Fostvedt clicks

into his skies, no one knows
what's about to happen.

- [Karl] This is a real,
here goes nothing coming up.

- [Narrator] Many of you
might not even comprehend

what he's doing half the time,

like it's an entirely
different thing

than what you and I
are familiar with.

But I suppose that's
what makes skiing

and the Crazy Karls of
the world, so damn cool.

[Karl yelling]

[intense guitar music]

♪ Why do we never
get an answer ♪

♪ When we're knocking
at the door ♪

♪ With a thousand,
million questions ♪

♪ About hate and death and war

♪ Cause when we stop
and look around us ♪

♪ There is nothing
that we need ♪

♪ In a world of persecution

♪ That is burning in its greed

♪ Ah

♪ Ah

♪ Ah

- [Karl] Fire in the hole boys!

♪ Why do we never
get an answer ♪

♪ When we're knocking
at the door ♪

♪ Because the truth
is hard to swallow ♪

♪ That's what the
war of love is for ♪

- [Karl] Getting kind of
sick of living on the road

and always sleeping
on different couches

and floors.

And just realized I
needed to have a place

to lay my head, cook
food and dry gear.

- [Interviewer] How many hours
did you put into this thing?

- I don't know, too many.

I was, like 3 months,
pretty full on.

[drill whirs]

♪ Think about it

- [Karl] At the end of
the day it's simple.

I wanted a trailer because
I want my front door

to be at any powder paradise
that I can get it to.

You obviously want to
surround yourself with people

that are skiing in a similar way

that your skiing,
so when you show up

in zones you can kind of
work the terrain together.

And figure out how to
get the rowdiest in it

and how to be the
most creative in it.

And so for me, like two buds

that help inspire the
most creativity are

John Ware and Lucas Wachs.

[upbeat rock music]

It's always cloud nine when
your going out with Lucas.

He has an insane
prowess on his skis

an insane way of reading terrain

and just like such
a calm demeanor,

but someone that you
trust as a partner.

♪ Spirit warriors move softly

♪ All through the shade

♪ While the children
are sleeping ♪

♪ They surround the camp

♪ A delay in the song starts

♪ And through the end

♪ Chanting death
will come sweetly ♪

♪ As the wind, the
bow, the stone ♪

♪ Until the fields are
red with ancient Merlot ♪

♪ Heaven helps a friend

♪ Spotless and gleaming

♪ They dream past the tents

- [Karl] My buddy John Ware
is someone I've been skiing

with for, coming
up on 10 years now.

He's not gonna be going out

and chucking the biggest trick,

but he just has this style.

Holy cow that guy's so smooth.

♪ The fields that their
fathers saw grow ♪

♪ Heaven helps a friend

- [Narrator] In the
heart of winter,

several like minded
individuals such as

Karl, make an annual pilgrimage.

Drawn by a peculiar
event in the alpine

of Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

This congregation of pure stoke

and convivial competition,
held in the infamous

Corbet's Couloir is a bonafide
celebration of the send.

[crowd cheering]

- Yeah!

- [Karl] I took first place.

Won the title, King
of Corbet's last year.

And you know you get
that taste of victory

and I really wanted to go
back and defend my crown.

[rock music]

It's every bit as nerve
racking as last year,

but a lot of really
good energy up here.

[crowd cheering]

[crowd cheering]

There's one guys name
on the start list

that really caught my attention.

And that was Travis Rice.
- Let me get back to you.

- [Karl] Yeah, Travis
any thoughts on this one?

- [Travis] I mean dude I think

the left pop in has it better.

- [Karl] Yeah, I'm
on board with that.

[Travis laughing]

You know I was amped
up to go out there

and give him a
run for his money.

- [Travis] Yeah, lets go.

♪ Gonna have to face my demons

♪ Life of sin and
a life of lies ♪

♪ That I know

♪ The devil's gonna come
when the sun goes down ♪

♪ That I know

♪ The devil's gonna come
when the sun goes down ♪

[crowd cheering]

♪ Gonna lay by the river

♪ Gonna rest my eyes

♪ Cause I know this
time tomorrow ♪

♪ There ain't gonna
be blue skies ♪

- Yeah man, I was wildin.
[laughs]

Holy shit.

Little bit of chaos.

- [Skier] You know who's next?

- Uh-uh.

- [Skier] They call
him Crazy Karl.

[boy laughs]

♪ To take me down

♪ The devil's gonna come
when the sun goes down ♪

♪ That I know

- [Skier] Yeah.

♪ The devil's gonna come
when the sun goes down ♪

[crowd cheering]

[crowd cheering]

- [Skier] Yeah.

[crowd cheering]

- Way to put it down.
- Yeah, dog.

- Yeah, buddy.

- That was fire, buddy.
- It was massive.

- [Announcer] It came
down to two people.

Coming in second
place, Karl Fostvedt.

[crowd cheering]

- Came close

- And this years King of
Corbet's, Travis Rice.

[crowd cheering]

- It wasn't so much
about winning or losing

but it was more, show people

that you can ski the
shit out of Corbet's

on a pair of skis.

♪ The devil's gonna come
when the sun goes down ♪

[crowd cheering]

♪ The devil's gonna come
when the sun goes down ♪

♪ That I know

♪ The devil's gonna come
when the sun goes down ♪

- [Narrator] With
springtime imminent

and a proper send
in mind near home,

Crazy Karl took his
show back on the road.

Or perhaps I should
say, over the road.

- Got up here about four o'clock

and shoveled til about midnight.

Yeah we're going full
castle this year.

- [Narrator] This was
not your average beast.

This thing was a
formidable monster.

With teeth.

- [Karl] Oh, buddy.

In a nutshell, you pretty
much have two options

in life, get corked or don't.

- [Skier] Two.

One.

Ready to punt.

- [Man] Send 'er!

♪ Black crow and
a dress of white ♪

♪ Blood flows and
the angels cry ♪

♪ Black crow and
a dress of white ♪

♪ Blood flows and
the dead won't die ♪

♪ Black crow and
a dress of white ♪

♪ Blood flows and
the angels cry ♪

♪ Black crow and
a dress of white ♪

- [Skier] Yeah!

♪ And the dead won't die

[horn blares]

- [Skier] Yes.

♪ I saw the darkness tonight

- [Skier] Here goes nothing.

♪ I felt the darkness inside

♪ Black crow and
a dress of white ♪

♪ Blood flows and
the angels cry ♪

♪ Black crow and
a dress of white ♪

♪ Blood flows and
the dead won't die ♪

♪ Black crow and
a dress of white ♪

♪ Blood flows and
the angels cry ♪

♪ Black crow and
a dress of white ♪

- [Narrator] He may
have earned the moniker

when he was just a child,

but modern day Karl
Fostvedt has affirmed

that the crazy is
still in Crazy Karl.

[typewriter clicking]

- [Logan] My name's
Logan Pehota.

I'm from Pemberton, BC.

And I'm 24 years old.

- [Narrator] The Pehota
name might ring a bell.

After all, Logan's
been a rising force

in free skiing throughout
his adolescence.

But the familiarity might

just extend a few
generations deeper.

- Cold snow up top
on Currie though.

That looks pretty nice.

- I'm sure a lot of people
have heard of who my dad is.

- Few sloughs coming out, but--

- [Logan] Eric Pehota,
he's a big mountain legend.

Pioneer in the back
country alongside his buddy

Trevor Peterson.

- [Eric] I commandeered
the young fellow

to help me today
which is a good hand.

- Cause we didn't go heli.

- Cause we didn't
go heli skiing.

[helicopter whirring above]

Empty basket, no.

- We're good.

- Yeah, no skies in the basket.

Gray bird everywhere.

- No snow.

Yes!

[Eric laughs]

Growing up with that.

It's obviously morphed me

into the person I am, right now.

He's definitely taught me what

to do and what not to do, when
it comes to the mountains.

My dad still goes out with me.

Almost every day we go sledding.

It's hard to tell how downhill

that takeoff is gonna be.

- Oh, its good.

Get slough coming over

where you cut across,
I think you'll--

- I think he's stoked
that I'm still skiing

and doing what he does.

- [Narrator] Doing what he does

also involves competition
within the tribe

to establish dominance.

- [Logan] Comp skiing
compared to filming.

- [Skier] Stoked, buddy?

- Stoked, somewhat.

- [Skier] Nervous?

- I'll be more stoked
when I get down

to the bottom in one piece.

It's definitely a
different aspect of skiing.

It's always the nerves up here.

That's why I'm only
doing one this year.

Last year I definitely
had, probably the best run

on this face I think
you could get really.

- [Announcer] Logan Pehota

- [Logan] Lets go baby.

- [Announcer] Here
comes Logan Pehota

- [Announcer] Sending
it over the corner.

- [Announcer] With a big 360.

- [Announcer] Facing
this off the nose

and does not hesitate, yes
he will and the double.

Oh yeah, regular chute style.

He is here to get rowdy.

- [Announcer] And off
the nose is the hugest!

[crowd cheering]

- [Announcer] Holy, macaroni!

- This is unbelievable.
- Oh my gosh!

- This is--
- He's gonna take the win.

- [Announcer] 98 points.

- [Announcer] I have
never seen such a score.

- So I did one stop this year.

I don't know if
I'll be making it

up to that level again.

There's a bit more
rocks out this year, so.

I mean I've got
something lined up.

- [Announcer] Coming into
this with a big three.

Logan.

Another one and Logan
clean through that one too.

Two 360's on two massive airs.

- [Announcer] And
this is a big one too.

Taking it deep into the tranny.

- [Announcer] That
was a huge run

and we'd expect nothing less

from the reigning champion here.

- Got third in wildcard, so.

[crowd cheering]

So honestly what I try
and do is just, go big.

It's the funnest
feeling, I think skiing.

- [Skier] Well played.

- [Narrator] The young
Pehota has proven himself

a competitive machine.

It just so happens
he is also something

of a beast on a machine.

[upbeat music]
[motor roaring]

Logan clearly has no qualms
sending her to the moon.

But has he gotten
her upside down?

- No I haven't
backied the sled yet.

But it's been like my main
goal, ever since I bought a sled

which was like four years now.

- I think this has kind
of been nagging at him

for a while and
he wants to do it.

Get it out of the way
so he can actually get

on, back with his skiing

and concentrate on filming.

- [Logan] Little intimidated,

but jump looks money.

It's time to get 'er done.

♪ Have you done

[engine revving]

♪ Have you done

♪ We get it, gonna come

- I think so.

♪ Something evil

- [Logan] It did the
feet bounce thing.

I'm gonna try and go
a little slower in

and maybe a bit more
full pin at the end.

♪ Something evil

- [Logan] God, dammit.

♪ Evil, gonna ride
- Guess I'll go again.

Ooh, I thought I had it.

- Ooh!

Buddy you are so lucky.

- [Logan] I just gotta
chill out even more.

♪ Something deadly

♪ Deadly

♪ Gonna fall.

- [Logan] I tried
a handful of times.

Got squished by my sled.

That wasn't so sick.

♪ Something deadly

- [Skier] That's what
you want right there.

- Just couldn't stay
on, I was close.

I'm definitely gonna get
it next year I think.

I hope.

What am I doing?

♪ Have you done

♪ Have you done

♪ Deadly, gonna come

♪ Come

♪ Come

- [Logan] My dad
definitely isn't scared,

watching what I do.

He knows I'm not
gonna go out there

and send something
I can't stomp.

I'm not hitting something
I can't really ride out of.

[upbeat rock music]

♪ He's got a soul and
fire joins his dreams ♪

♪ Trust in the burn sublime

♪ Songs and screams

♪ He was better
lord of the sky ♪

♪ Never a doubt, no
fear in his eyes ♪

♪ I don't what I'm
doing down here ♪

♪ Cause I know what's
it's like to be ♪

♪ Not only brave good and evil

♪ I just want to be free

♪ Discovered he's tired

♪ But you save your
soul in death ♪

♪ They grow so and see
things they never forget ♪

♪ He has been hunting

♪ No more new trail

♪ He's seen relationships
you'll never understand ♪

♪ I know we're doing time

♪ There's nowhere
I'd rather be ♪

♪ Knowing more good and evil

♪ I just want to be free

♪ From the mountains

♪ A barrier to the sea

♪ Up in the skies where
only an eagle's free ♪

♪ He was a damn pure eagle toy

- [Skier] Holy
[bleep] that was--

♪ Why should we drown
a terrible sacrifice ♪

- [Skier] Oh man, yeah.

- [Logan] My dad, he taught
me to do everything that I do.

- You missed Logan's shot?
- I hadn't missed a shot.

- Cover shot.

What did we bring you here for?

I'm stoked that we still get
to spend so much time together.

For us it's, you know
it's just normal.

It's what we do, and
what I've grown up doing.

- Thanks for showing up.

[Eric chuckles]

- Yeah it's just a normal day
in the life of us, really.

♪ Whirling around

[typewriter clicking]

- Let's go, we got
helis to catch.

- Going big, bud.

Yes!

Hey, there's a couple geysers.

[dramatic music]

- [Narrator] Springtime
in the mountains

of majestic Revelstoke,
British Columbia

means dramatic changes
in the high alpine.

Lasting stability,
longly moving daylight,

and the formation
of glorious spines.

It is here that
Logan, Abma, Karl,

and Sam needed to unite

to take their games to a bigger
and wilder arena, as a team.

But questions loom.

How would the rookie fare
outside of ski area mini golf?

Would the whirling dervish

be grounded by terrain
of consequence?

Just how sendy would the
big mountain slayer get?

And could a man just
shy of 40 hold his own,

and survive amongst a
pack of eager younglings?

- Send it!
- Send it.

- [Karl] Well you guys
will send it anyhow.

- I'm feeling the send today.

Got a new mouthguard,
I'm ready to go now.

Yeah buddy.

- Nervous, stoked,
excited, apprehensive.

- Oh dude, I'm fired up.

- [Narrator] Will these
skiers come together as one

and find the natural send

amongst these
celebrated mountains?

One veteran, and three
heli skiing greenhorns

were frothing to provide
us with some answers.

- [Skier] Yeah, dude!

- [Skier] I've been waiting
all winter for this trip,

and right now I'm just
stoked to get out there

and hopefully do a
lot of french frying.

- [Skier] Yeah
boys, let's do it!

♪ On a long and
lonesome highway ♪

♪ East of Omaha

♪ You can listen
to the engines ♪

♪ Moanin' out his one old song

♪ You can think
about the woman ♪

♪ Or the girl you knew
the night before ♪

[helicopter whirring]
[Logan panting]

♪ But your thoughts
will soon be wandering ♪

♪ The way they always do

♪ When you're ridin' 16 hours

♪ And there's
nothin' much to do ♪

♪ And you don't feel
much like ridin' ♪

♪ You just wish the
trip was through ♪

♪ Here I am

♪ On the road again

♪ There I am

♪ Up on the stage

♪ Here I go

♪ Playin' star again

♪ There I go

♪ Turn the page

[skier yelling]

- [Skier] That was a popper!

♪ We walk into this restaurant

♪ Strung out from the road

♪ And you feel the
eyes upon you ♪

♪ As you're shakin'
off the cold ♪

♪ You pretend it
doesn't bother you ♪

♪ But you just want to explode

♪ Most times you can't

- [Man] Let's turn around.

Looks like a pretty hard
hit to the body there.

He might be in trouble.

♪ All the same old cliches
- I'm all right!

- Damn uncle, you all good?
- How we do it.

♪ Is this a man

♪ And you always
seem outnumbered ♪

♪ You don't dare make a stand

♪ Make your stand

♪ Oh here I am

♪ On the road again

♪ There I am

- [Skier] Yep, Logan's ready.

You gonna bomb this?
- Yeah buddy.

- Yeah Logan.
- Got it?

That's it!

♪ Playin' the star again

♪ There I go

♪ Turn the page

♪ Oh oh

♪ Out there in the spotlight

♪ You're a million miles away

♪ Every ounce of energy

♪ You try and give away

♪ As the sweat pours
out your body ♪

♪ Like the music that you play

♪ Later in the evening

♪ As you lie awake in bed

Oh my God, dude.
♪ Echoes of the amplifiers

- Epic!

- I like watching Logan's air.

- Eight hot.

♪ You smoke the day's
- Yeah Logan!

♪ Last cigarette
- What a man.

♪ Rememberin' what she said

- [Logan] It was like way
flatter than I thought.

- [Skier] Oh buddy.

- [Logan] And I was
just coming down,

I was like there's no
chance I'm gonna land it.

- [Skier] Whoa!

[rock music]

♪ Here I am

♪ On the road again

♪ There I am

♪ Up on that stage

♪ Here I go

♪ Playin' star again

♪ There I go

♪ Turn the page

♪ There I go

♪ Turn that page

♪ There I go

♪ Yeah

♪ There I go

♪ Yeah yeah yeah

♪ There I go yeah

♪ Here I go

- You nailed it, yeah!

♪ Here I go

♪ Oh whoa

♪ Here I go

- [Skier] Yeah.

Yeah!

Yeah!

- Why?

Why does this happen to me?

Oh boy.

- [Man] Bit too fast.

Coming in first, boys.

- That was good snow.
- That was good snow.

It was really good snow.

- Basically right
after the first hit,

everything went well.

- After the time I
missed my line, yes.

That happened.

- The gully was sweet,

but yeah a little
crunchy on the left side.

- The gully.
- [bleep] with us

with the whole gully thing.
- Gully.

- [Karl] I'm gonna ride
out in this left gully.

- You know what a
gully is, right?

- Like a, like a--

- Well, a hockey goalie
or goalkeeper, yeah yeah.

- Wait say how you
guys say gully?

- It's a gully.
- Gully.

- Gully.
- Yeah we thought

you were gonna
goalpost between--

- Oh!

Damn.

- [Eric] Yeah there's
a gap in the trees.

- [Narrator] These bros were
not particularly familiar

with one another
prior to this venture,

but they were quickly
evolving into best mates.

This was familiar
territory for Abma,

but for the others,
gallivanting around

in a helicopter day after day

was not standard
operating procedure.

- This is my first real
big heli skiing trip.

- [Narrator] Sam
Kuch was resolved

to capitalize upon
the opportunity.

♪ Please don't tell me
'bout your wrong and right ♪

♪ Don't tell me
to live you die ♪

♪ 'Cause I can kill
myself just fine ♪

- [Skier] We're go!

♪ Point your finger
at another man ♪

♪ Not even I know who I am

♪ I won't pretend
I give a damn ♪

♪ No one knows for
whom bells tolls ♪

♪ Just march along this way

♪ Wear your veil
to show and tell ♪

♪ 'Cause we got hell to pay

♪ Saints

♪ You're too late

♪ Pray to your Gods

♪ Deny what you want

♪ Light another candle

♪ 'Cause the good will
never defeat the brave ♪

- Pulled a sender on.

Went for the corpse out
over it into the apron.

♪ It's not nightmares
that haunt me now ♪

♪ It's reality
behind your cloud ♪

♪ Silence behind your sound

♪ Don't you tell me
what you want to hear ♪

♪ I can raise the
voice you fear ♪

♪ But it's not worth
the breath my dear ♪

♪ No one knows for
whom bells toll ♪

♪ Just march along this way

- Perfect.
- That stuff is sick.

♪ Wear your veil
to show and tell ♪

♪ 'Cause we got hell to pay

♪ Saints

♪ You're too late

♪ Pray to your Gods

♪ Deny what you want

♪ Light another candle

♪ 'Cause the good will
never defeat the brave ♪

♪ Brave

♪ Take your hate

♪ Deny all their Gods

♪ Take what you want

♪ Let me throw another stone

♪ 'Cause we all know
that we are the saved ♪

- [Skier] Yeah!

Go off!

Oh ho yes!

[dramatic rock music]

[skier yells]

- [Man] Two, one.

- [Skier] And I'm on rock here.

I'm gonna try to scootch my way

across here, see what happens.

♪ Saints

♪ You're too late

♪ Pray to your Gods

♪ Deny what you want

♪ Light another candle

♪ 'Cause the good will
never defeat the brave ♪

♪ Take your hate

♪ Deny all their Gods

♪ Take what you want

♪ Let me throw another stone

♪ 'Cause we all know
that we are the saved ♪

- Uncle Abma, one of the
forefathers of free skiing

out here showing the
boys how it's done.

[intense music]

- [Skier] Yeah bud!

Damn dude!

- [Karl] That thing
has some tang on her.

- [Skier] Right,
that was perfect.

- Abma skied like a boss, man.

[soothing music]

- Pretty mindblowing watching
him do stuff right now

at the age he's at.

I don't think I'll be doing

what he's doing on
skis when I'm that old.

- Think the old man's gonna
show us how it's done?

- [Skier] Yeah uncle!

Yeah!

Oh!

[skiers whooping]

[soothing music]

- Uncle Abma.

Chucking buckets.

Why is it so hard for
us and so easy for him?

[upbeat music]

- Yes!
- Yeah!

- Good job bud!

- Whatever reason we started
calling him Uncle Abma.

- I love being called uncle!

- We're all kids.

He's the uncle, he's the
one with the experience.

- Those kids are awesome.

I'm proud to be their uncle.

It became a tight
knit family vibe.

I got worried for them
like an uncle would.

- Yes, oh my God!
- Oh!

- That was a fan.

- He's just one
of the best ever,

so to get a chance to get
in a helicopter with him

is a dream come true.

- We've been doing
it the whole trip,

and it always seems
to prove us wrong.

- [Skier] Anytime you got
a question about a line,

trying to figure out
which way to get in,

which way to get out,

go talk to uncle and
he'll get you set up.

- [Mark] That point you
can make your decision.

Go left, or right.
- Okay.

- All my best runs were runs

where I was hanging
out up top with Abma.

- You got it brother.
- All right.

- Hell yeah.
- Three, two, one, drop in.

- [Mark] Yeah buddy.

[dramatic rock music]

Yeah bud!

- Watching Karl
ski is just a show,

at any time.

♪ I

♪ Don't wanna know your name

♪ 'Cause you don't
look the same ♪

♪ The way you did before

♪ Okay okay okay

♪ You think you
got a pretty face ♪

- Oh that was lit.
- That was!

♪ But the rest of
you is out of place ♪

- Probably the most fun to
watch skier I've seen ever.

♪ You looked all right before

♪ Fox on the run

♪ You scream and
everybody comes ♪

♪ A-Running

- The things he does on skis,
like honestly cannot do it.

I feel like a lot of pro
skiers would be like ah,

I could do that stuff
and it's like, you can't.

♪ On the run

- I think it's madness.
♪ Foxy

♪ Fox on the run

♪ And hide away

- Oh!
- What?

How did that happen?

♪ You

♪ You talk about
just every band ♪

♪ But the names you
drop are secondhand ♪

♪ Secondhand

♪ I've heard it all before

♪ I

♪ Don't wanna know your name

♪ 'Cause you don't
look the same ♪

- Ripped the ridge
all the way down.

Two more pillows here, could
even stack a buoy right here.

Just straight out.

♪ Fox on the run

♪ You scream and
everybody comes ♪

♪ A-Running

♪ Take a run and
hide yourself away ♪

♪ Foxy on the run

♪ F-Foxy

♪ Fox on the run

♪ You scream and
everybody comes ♪

♪ A-Runnin

♪ Take a run and
hide yourself away ♪

- [Skier] The hole
to drop in, oh God.

♪ Foxy on the run

- [Skier] Dude, if he airs
over that that's absurd.

Nah, dude.

Nah how'd he, oh!

♪ Fox on the run

♪ Fox on the run

- Nothin' but good times!

♪ Fox on the run

- [Narrator] Having
fully embraced the send,

our fearless heroes
took their acts

to spectacular new heights.

But we aren't quite done.

Within any madness of this sort,

there's always going
to be a moment,

a fear,

or even a hunk of rock and snow

that stands above the rest.

- Whole zone, like an
insane stacked zone

and there's this--
- Right in the middle.

- You can't keep your eyes
off that [bleep] donger.

That's the definition
of donger right there.

- That's a punter.
- Yeah.

Step right into this one.

- [Logan] Don't want to
send it down into the abyss.

Okay, rock paper
scissors for the donger?

- [Skier] Yeah.

- I would've probably
preferred doing that second.

- The donger?
- Yeah!

- Let's do this.
- I think I--

- And that's what I thought

we were playing rock paper
scissors for was for second.

- Oh!
- No way!

- Rock paper scissors shoot.

Rock paper scissors shoot.

[Logan chuckles]

- Woo!

And when I won
rock paper scissors

like Logan, you're on bro.

And then you called
in on the radio.

- [Skier] Yeah, Sam just
won rock paper scissors

so he's teeing her off first.

[all laughing]

- That's the winner.

- He just rolled with it.

- Yeah, I don't care.

- Yeah buddy.
- Let's [bleep] go buddy.

- Three--
- Yeah here it goes!

Okay bud!
- Let's go!

[ominous music]

- [Skier] Oh, yes.

[skier laughs]

- Oh way to fuckin'
land it, buddy!

- Way too fuckin' big man.

Oh my God.

Speed was the hardest to judge.

I came in feeling
like I was going slow,

and then went like 30 feet
past the proper landing.

- [Skier] So big.

- [Sam] Yo Logan, you don't need

quite as much speed as I had,

so don't be afraid to
corner a little bit down.

- [Logan] 10-4, thanks for that.

[dramatic music]

[all laughing]

- Oh boy, man.
- Great success.

- [Narrator] Ultimately,
triumph on the donger.

But the rookie's electrifying
season warrants a fitting end.

With that, we let
him bid farewell

with a final, radical send.

[dramatic music]

- Oh!

Oh!

Buddy!

Yeah, good!
- That was awesome!

[skier laughs]

Yeah!

- [Narrator] As
happens each winter

when the magical
crystalline blanket

transforms the ragged
alpine landscape,

the mountains call out
to our protagonists.

The summoning did not
land on deaf ears.

- Yeah boys.
- These gentlemen went.

- Good times.
- Yeah buddy.

- [Narrator] And they sent.

- [Skier] Life is dope, man.

Yoo!

♪ Return to sender

♪ Return to sender

♪ I gave a letter
to the postman ♪

♪ He put it in his sack

♪ Bright and early
next morning ♪

♪ He brought my letter back

♪ She wrote upon it

♪ Return to sender

♪ Address unknown

♪ No such number
- Oh my God

♪ No such zone

♪ We had a quarrel

- Yeah I'm gonna do a
flip-a-doodle probably.

♪ A lover's spat

- A double flip-a-doodle.
- A double flip-a-doodle?

♪ I write I'm sorry

♪ But my letter
keeps coming back ♪

♪ So when I dropped
it in the mailbox ♪

♪ And sent it special D

- Sam Kuch doesn't crash.

♪ Bright and early
next morning ♪

♪ It came right back to me

♪ She wrote upon it

♪ Return to sender

- Busted up my
organs on that one.

♪ Address unknown

♪ No such person

♪ No such zone

♪ This time I'm gonna
take it myself ♪

♪ And put it right in her hand

♪ And if it comes back

♪ The very next day

♪ Then I'll understand

♪ The writing on it

♪ Return to sender

[all laughing]

♪ Address unknown

[skiers shouting]

♪ No such number

♪ No such zone

♪ Return to sender

[all cheersing]

♪ Return to sender
- 79 points.

[Skiers laughing]
♪ Return to sender

♪ Return to sender
- Good job.

- Gettin' us out of beer.
- Hell yeah man.

- Good job bros.
- Me, directing.

- Oh hell yeah.
[skier laughs]

- Yeah buddy.
- God, sick lines everybody.

- That was the highest level
of skiing I've ever seen.

And if that's their first
time getting out there,

watch out, 'cause the next few
years are gonna be bananas.