Last weekend, UAF was treated to a ski and snowboard movie put on by the Moose Mountain Alpine Sports Club. Teton Gravity Research's "The Tangerine Dream" was shown to a "sold-out crowd of 250 people," said Bill Hauer, the president of Moose Mountain Ski Help.

Although most ski and snowboard movies are so long that the action can get repetitive, The Tangerine Dream was able to keep fans captivated until the very end, and of course the door prizes given out after the show, donated by Beaver Sports, helped with that.

The Tangerine Dream gets its title from an old, beat up tangerine truck that takes the boarders and skiers to different spots. Whenever possible, the group takes this truck with them for no other reason than for their own enjoyment. A lot of these movies feature either skiers or snowboarders but usually not both. Because this was a hybrid of the two, it drew in skiers and boarders alike, leaving neither of them disappointed.

The audience travels with the group from spots in Alaska, such as Alyeska, Haines, Juneau and Valdez, to places in Europe: India, France and Turkey, with multiple sites down in the Lower 48 interspersed throughout. At Pyramid Gap, Utah, we saw a 14-year-old kid land a 90-foot jump, going nearly 50 mph on take off. There were the usual sick jumps, gut-wrenching falls, and stylish carving that are all to be expected. Combined with a wide variety of music styles, from rap to rock to classical, there was something for everyone. A few interviews with some skiers and snowboarders were scattered into the mix, as well as some camera views taken by the skiers themselves.

One thing that set this movie apart from years past was the combination of skiing and BASE jumping.

"These sort of movies are usually repetitive," Mike Wilkinson a junior biology major. "It's hard to improve and add anything new. The BASE jumping was something I had never seen before." However, the BASE jumping wasn't the only thing to stick out in others' minds. Dan Clark, a junior mechanical engineering student was "stoked to see Valdez. It's sick to see AK, as well as someplace that I've boarded at before."

Hauer thought this movie was "one of their best films yet, if not their best. The audience seemed to like it, there was something for everyone."

This movie made all the hardcore skiers and snowboarders just ache to hit the slopes, which was probably the point. Wilkinson was so pumped after the film that he could hardly contain himself.

"It made me want to jump, sing, flip, dance, and spin until transcending into a level of floaty existence, never before explored by mankind," Wilkinson said. To put in other words, he was ready to get back on the slopes. Interspersed throughout the flick were random thoughts and words of wisdom by Jeremy Jones, a veteran of big-mountain snowboarding.

"You just want to have that feeling at the end of the day," Jones says. "Good times."