Warren Miller film to feature Camp Hale 10th Mountain experience
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- Created on Friday, 22 April 2011 01:56
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By GEOFF MINTZ, VAIL DAILY
CAMP HALE — There was a time when skiing didn't include valet parking, high-speed gondolas, electronic boot heaters and hot coco at Two Elk Lodge. There was a time when skiing was just man, outfitted with rudimentary equipment, versus the mountain.
Chris Anthony is on his annual assignment with the Warren Miller film crew this week. It will be the 22nd consecutive year that the Vail native has been featured in the film, which will debut in the fall.
This year's task is to literally walk a mile in the shoes of the historic 10th Mountain Division soldiers at their original training grounds - Camp Hale, located about a half-an-hour south of Vail, where 14,000 troops were commissioned by President Roosevelt to prepare for war in Europe.
“This is a project I've been trying to put together for about five years to acknowledge the 10th Mountain Division,” Anthony said. “The Warren Miller guys said, ‘Wow, this is something important. We should definitely tell this story.'”
Equipped with only the vintage gear used by the 10th Mountain Division (most of which is the actual gear from the 1940s, not reproductions), Anthony along with Scott Kennett and Vail native Tony Seibert are facing the elements — scaling up the jagged terrain and skiing down the mountains of the Continental Divide the way it was done 60 years ago.
The not-yet-titled Warren Miller film will feature interviews with the hard-nosed 10th Mountain Division veterans who trained at Camp Hale in the 1940s and fought in World War II. The segment will focus on their experiences as skiers and why they signed up for such a grueling experience.
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