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“We’re entering unprecedented territory for a ski movie,” CP says as we roll up to the Log Cabin in Big Bear, California. It’s early in the morning and Tanner is still asleep back at Marc Frank Montoya’s The Block Hotel. He doesn’t need to be here yet, the crew of 12 still has a couple hours of setting up probably half a million dollars worth of rented lighting, dolly, sound, and camera equipment. Grips, gaffers, and boom operators—all dudes who regularly work in Hollywood—are slinging jargon faster then us bro-brahs can comprehend. When’s the last time you saw an effort like this to film a few seconds of opening scene for a ski movie. Never is the right answer.

Spending more money in one day—not even on shooting skiing—than most film companies spend in an entire season maybe gives you some kind of idea the scale that Tanner’s movie, “The Massive”, is on. The day wasn’t easy. The closed down diner had no A/C and the doors had to be shut to keep out traffic noise. Tanner goes through countless take and camera angles, and handles it like the handles the heat of the X Games Superpipe—like a champ.

Check out the rest of the shots from the day!

Speaking of hot, heard about Red Bull’s The Experiment? Going down Friday on the Santa Monica Pier. Check it!

All the preparation and all the practice came down to one day, really. CP flew an A-Star fitted with a Tyler mount down from Seattle. Based on thoughts from credible sources, this was the first time Mt. Hood had ever seen a helicopter used for ski or snowboard shoot.

It's difficult to fathom what needs to go on for a heli shoot to be a success. The chaos is nearly indescribable. We sat on the in-run up by the skiers while the Red Bull Skiing team manager Pete did his best to relay commands from CP over the roar of the rotors sitting in the shotgun seat. Those little Motorola radios provided little more fidelity than indecipherable bursts of muddled shouting. Nevertheless as the heli dropped low over the top of the in run, and our gloves skipped away across the glacier like bunnies across a field, order somehow manifested itself from madness and the shoot was a resounding success.

See all 25 shots from the massive gallery of the final action shoot for Tanner Hall's film, "The Massive!"

The last update we left you with a picture of mellow summer fun deep in the woods of Oregon. Tanner and crew had taken a few days to shred the public park, spread the stoke, and chill out at the spacious Red Bull Skiing house in Welches.

A few days later it was go time. The crew of Tanner Hall, Callum Pettit, Dana Flahr, Sean Fields, C.R. Johnson, Chris Turpin, and Frank Raymond cruised up the silent slopes of after-hour Timberline in a transport cat to survey the madness that Frank Wells and Jerimiah Pebley of Snow Park Technologies were pushing up out of massive amounts of snow. What they found was a hip with 90-foot long landings on two sides, seperated by a 17-foot wide deck.

The ski season is still alive and kicking in Oregon. Tanner Hall is taking full advantage of the 900+ inches of snow that fell on Mt. Hood this year, by having X-Games pipe builder Frank Wells push up a massive pile of snow for a season ending super feature at Timberline.

Just a couple days before the final shoot for "The Massive", Tanner is enjoying the quiet before the storm. The last few days have been mellow: skiing at T-Line's public park, a quick tramp and skate session at Windell's, and some tasty BBQ served up by local legend Justin Wiegand. Red Bull Skiing has a huge house down in the woods of Welches, and all the boys are up for this session. Sean Fields can't stop talking about all the fish he's going to pull out of the river behind the house. Callum Pettit made the push from Whistler with super photog Blake Jorgenson. Just hours before Dana Flahr, Frank Raymond, and Chris Turpin rolled in from the same leg despite the best efforts to thwart the mission from their GPS. The Provo brothers, Ian and Neil, arrived late last night and are armed with topo maps and fly rods at their camp down by the river. Sammy Carlson's house is just across the street, and ski-filmmaker Eric Iberg is omnipresent and fueling the stoke.