Good news for skiers and lovers of great film work: Sweetgrass Productions has a few film out. Valhalla is “the tale of one man’s search to rediscover the freedom of his youth.” Doing so requires him to ski an extraordinary amount of fantastic powder and jumped around shirtless/naked. Shot in a lo-fi, 70s style, you wouldn’t know it was recent if not for all the modern gear and callouts to the sponsors. It looks like a fantastic piece.

Episode 11 of On the Road with Solitaire finds our heroes in the backcountry of Termas de Chillan for a month at basecamp where they finally catch some decent luck and get to ski a bit between scarfing down cheese and sausage. There’s one more episode left in the series, which has been an incredible body of work from this two-year expedition. Episode 12 is “Coming August 23″ according to the end of this video…so I’m sure it won’t be too long.

The crew at Sweetgrass Productions has released episode six in their behind-the-scenes documentary. This one finds them in South America trying to find their way to the summit of a volcano through terrible conditions, lack of transportation, and major dental problems. The sound of that dental drill is definitely the worst part. At least the ones without crippling tooth infections had some nice scenery and perfect light for filming.

The trailer for Solitaire has finally arrived, it’s a new backcountry film from Sweetgrass Productions. They’d been building anticipation for a while with several webisodes called On the Road with Solitaire, where they told stories of the years-long filming project. The polished product looks as soulful as you’d expect from Sweetgrass. Premier for Solitaire is in Denver on September 15^th.

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The new film Solitaire from Sweetgrass productions is marching towards release. To promote the film, they’re running the 12-part webseries called On the Road with Solitaire, with a new episode out the 21^st of each month. They’re up to episode 3, The Raptor – and it’s the best so far. You can watch the others on Vimeo.