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Written by Dan England
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Friday, 19 October 2007 |
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 There’s the slight chill in the air that accompanies fall. There’s the views of a slight layer of snow that covers the peaks of Rocky Mountain National Park. And there’s the annual Warren Miller film.
They all mean one thing: It’s time to get jacked for ski season.
Perhaps nothing signals that more to skiers and snowboarders than the Miller films.
“What they really do is they get people ramped up about the coming year,” said Larry Modlin, owner of the Alpine Haus, 4855 10th St. Road in Greeley.
The Union Colony Civic Center in Greeley is attempting to capitalize on that by putting on its own showing of the annual Warren Miller movie. This year’s movie is called “Playground,” and it’s the first time the UCCC is putting on the event as its own production. In past years, Miller’s production crew just rented out the UCCC and put on its own showing.
That means extra stuff this year, including picking five people out of the audience who are dressed up in a costume and giving them a prize. The film will show a couple days before Halloween. It also means starting the party at the Island Grill, the new downtown restaurant, a couple hours before the showing of the movie.
“We’re just trying to have some fun with it,” said Andy Segal, spokesman for the UCCC.
Some of the other standbys at a Warren Miller production are still there, including free ski passes (three this year, to Winter Park, Copper Mountain and Steamboat).
That also includes the breathtaking shots of skiers doing crazy things down huge mountains, interspersed with humorous bits that make snowboarding and skiing fun. This will be Miller’s 58th film on skiing.
“You have to give him credit,” Modlin said of Miller. “I don’t know of anyone who can sell the same product for so long. He’s become an icon that tells us the season is upon us and it’s time to get excited, and he does a great job of doing that.”
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TO GO
Warren Miller’s “Playground” will be 7:30 p.m. Oct. 27 at the Union Colony Civic Center, 701 10th St., Greeley. A pre-show party will be 5:30 p.m. at the Island Grill in downtown Greeley.
The film showcases Sweden, Canada, Alaska, Japan and more, including an unlikely winter destination, a new ski resort in the middle of the Dubai desert.
Tickets are $19 and available at the Alpine Haus, 4855 10th St. Road, Greeley, by calling 356.5000, or go to www.ucstars.com. | Only registered users can write comments.
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