Stio: What advice do you have for someone that's looking to become a better skier?ĭash: Just have to have fun. I’ve always thought the whole tradition was pretty cool and my drive in life has been about being a part of something cool and doing something cool and I want to share that with people because I love it. From the clothes I wear to the skis I put on my feet to the way I go about the motion of putting on skis, walking up to the lift and skiing. Also, I have always had an appreciation for style and skiing is a way for me to express myself. Outside of the act of skiing, I like the process of just getting up to the hill, the warmth of the lodge in contrast to the cold, being bundled up in the mountains, basically everything involved in the ritual of skiing. But now I know it’s that heightened sense of feeling that is the ultimate presence and that’s what I’ve truly come to appreciate when I’m on my skis. For a while, I didn’t understand that sense of presence. Feel the adrenaline and endorphins release. When I’m on my skis and guru focused, people call it the flow, I could close my eyes and just feel the tips of my skis moving through the landscape in front of me. Not thinking about other struggles in life or problems I've been dealing with. I’m a dreamer, so I’m always thinking about what I could be doing or should have done better, but for those split seconds when I’m skiing I’m not thinking about anything else. First, the thing I’ve come to realize, that I didn’t fully recognize before, is that skiing allows me to become present. Stio: What is it about skiing that you love so much?ĭash: Good question… I guess it’s a two part thing for me. It felt like everything was working against us, but somehow we managed to pull it all together and make it happen. Then when we were filming at Alta shortly after that I collided with Zac, the main filmer of the project, and he broke a couple of ribs and couldn’t really ski for the next month after that. I was sweating it really hard, but after a month got back to a place where I could finally put my boots back on. During a different shoot in Jackson Hole I got frost bite on my feet so bad that I couldn’t ski for a month. Stio: What was the most memorable event from filming Stone's Throw?ĭash: The whole thing was kind of a roller coaster ride. It’s a film about a guy who has to work even though all he wants to do is ski, and Salt Lake City makes that dream possible.
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I wanted to do something crazy and had recently started my own slope side real estate business so it felt natural to put the time into a project that would highlight the proximity of Salt Lake to the mountains and my new professional career to my career as a pro skier. My new ski sponsor, DPS Skis, offered me the opportunity to create a DPS Cinematic Episode. After years of shooting with TGR and then doing a Warren Miller film, the timing finally aligned for me to dive into my own project. Ever since I was a kid I’ve wanted to make my own ski movie. Salt Lake City is just a ‘Stone’s Throw' from the amazing mountains of the Wasatch. Stio: Explain the idea behind Stone's Throw and how the idea came to life.ĭash: The idea behind the film starts with the name - Stone’s Throw. We caught up with Dash to talk to him about the new film and ask him about his take on how he lives the mountain life in Salt Lake City, Utah. During the winter of 2018/2019 Dash helped bring his dream project to life in the creation of his new film, Stone’s Throw. Photos by Rock Menzyk and Christopher Bezamat.Ĭurrently balancing his life as a pro-skier, a slope side realtor, a father and a husband, Dash Longe is a busy man. Produced by Sweet Grass Productions in association with Teton Gravity Research.
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