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 Jeff and Sara Lundy; Skiing Off The Top of the Divide.
For six-days the remarkable beauty of the Sawtooth Wilderness in Winter is my home. The ground covered in six-days is all with a heavy pack, on skis, and two-miles above sea-level. Accompanied by the wise and talented Chris and Sara Lundy of Sawtooth Mountain Guides, we are able to travel to places that the Lundy’s believe no person has been to in the winter-time.
Photography, backcountry ski touring, winter, a journey up a major named peak, and the Sawtooth Mountains. Now that combination sounds like fun to me. My goal on this day is to head up Imogene Peak 3,000+ vertical feet – via skins on skis and post hole climb – to capture a late afternoon shot of the Decker Peak area. Imogene (10,225 feet) is the farthest east named peak in the Sawtooth Range. I am able to capture the desired shot of the Sawtooth Range with Decker Peak as the center piece. It is taken from a wonderful platform-like rock outcrop just below the Imogene Peak summit. The effort to get up and back down the mountain is not without some significant snow related challenges. The snow conditions for the 1,600 vertical feet at the start and finish and the 600 feet below the summit are challenging – for different reasons. Luckily, accompanying me is Chris Lundy, co-owner of Sawtooth Mountain Guides. The route is from Yellow Belly Lake to McDonald Lake and then up the spine of Imogene. Chris and I are using the ascent as a warm-up for a traverse of the Sawtooth Wilderness. I have been up Imogene in the summer (via the the direct/face route from Farley Lake) with my MESH Art partners Kyle, Merry [Christmas] Dog and Shae Dog.
Heist films need a confidence scheme that includes something to grab the victim’s attention away from the prize. In the movie Focus two attractive people serve as the attention grabbers. Will Smith (Men In Black) and Margot Robbie (Wolf Of Wall Street) are exceedingly attractive people. Smith has clearly stepped up the effort to look more physically fit than in any previous film – and this is the guy who looked perfect playing Ali. Smith and Robbie are very good individually and okay as a romantic couple in this romantic comedy where “the con” is that it is a heist film and “the vic” is the viewer. The production and cinematographic values in Focus are strong. These two aspects and the attractiveness of the leads are crucial for Focus; as the script is weak to begin – mostly fails at the end. |
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