Comments on: Movie of the Month: Last of the Ski Bums https://dev.14erskiers.com/2008/11/movie-of-the-month-last-of-the-ski-bums/ Backcountry skiing, biking, hiking in Crested Butte, Colorado & beyond - Created by Brittany Konsella & Frank Konsella Tue, 29 Dec 2015 05:20:26 +0000 hourly 1 By: Brittany Walker Konsella https://dev.14erskiers.com/2008/11/movie-of-the-month-last-of-the-ski-bums/#comment-21958 Tue, 29 Dec 2015 05:20:26 +0000 https://dev.14erskiers.com/?p=172#comment-21958 In reply to Keith Spargo.

Agreed Keith! We love this flick 🙂

]]> By: Keith Spargo https://dev.14erskiers.com/2008/11/movie-of-the-month-last-of-the-ski-bums/#comment-21955 Mon, 28 Dec 2015 19:23:14 +0000 https://dev.14erskiers.com/?p=172#comment-21955 This is one of the greatest ski films ever made. Long live the legend of Ron Funk, and the memory of Barrymore!

]]> By: Ron Funk https://dev.14erskiers.com/2008/11/movie-of-the-month-last-of-the-ski-bums/#comment-1836 Sun, 18 Sep 2011 00:06:13 +0000 https://dev.14erskiers.com/?p=172#comment-1836 One of the main things I find in this “Getting Old” thing is people I know and love getting off the planet before I do. Barrymore was definitely one of the exceptional people in a life that’s been full of them. He came up with some wonderful bits of philosophy one of which was, “Never let truth stand in the way of a good story”! That was what “The Last of the Ski Bums” and it’s story line was all about. The characters he built were various pieces of truth that were mostly concocted in Dick’s genius of a mind to give the story some continuity and interest. I’d never realized that anyone could or would take it as an actual non-fictional documentary until a gentleman came up to me in a New York Ski Show and berated me for luring him into a trip to New Zealand by the footage of skiing the Tasman Glacier on Mt. Cook. The truth was days of shooting on an ice fall skiing over areas that we were too stupid do know were snow bridges over crevasses that went deep down into the glacier. Didn’t know that was the case until a guide was eventually supplied who told us what lucky fools we were to still be alive, Not bravery but shear stupidity. Quite possibly not all that different! I miss Barrymore but am only one of many who do. As to the gentleman at the Ski Show, I can only hope he had a good and adventurous trip. As for my own self, I’m alive, well, 77 years old and living in Thailand where I’ll die in the arms of one of these beautiful brown skinned women. Certainly not for everyone but just right for me. Ron ronfunk@hotmail.com

]]> By: AndrewBoldman https://dev.14erskiers.com/2008/11/movie-of-the-month-last-of-the-ski-bums/#comment-10 Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:26:28 +0000 https://dev.14erskiers.com/?p=172#comment-10 Great post! Just wanted to let you know you have a new subscriber- me!

]]> By: Movie of the Month: Blizzard of Ahhhs - Brittany’s Blog https://dev.14erskiers.com/2008/11/movie-of-the-month-last-of-the-ski-bums/#comment-9 Fri, 26 Dec 2008 16:24:11 +0000 https://dev.14erskiers.com/?p=172#comment-9 […] struck me in the movie was Greg Stump’s reference (as a narrator) to Dick Barrymore, creator of Last of the Ski Bums. I did not remember this reference before, probably because in middle school and high school I had […]

]]> By: Movie of the Month: Blizzard of Ahhs - 14erskiers.com https://dev.14erskiers.com/2008/11/movie-of-the-month-last-of-the-ski-bums/#comment-8 Fri, 26 Dec 2008 16:22:15 +0000 https://dev.14erskiers.com/?p=172#comment-8 […] struck me in the movie was Greg Stump’s reference (as a narrator) to Dick Barrymore, creator of Last of the Ski Bums. I did not remember this reference before, probably because in middle school and high school I had […]

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