Tracked up is the movie that we have been generating from our ski footage from the 1999-2000 ski season.  As with most ski movies, it doesn't have a plot really, it just has skiing from a variety of backcountry areas, ski areas & resorts.  Although it doesn't have the steep Alaskan descents & new school technical tricks of the current profession ski movies, it does offer plenty of powder, steeps, woods, bumps, groomed etc. that one would expect in a ski movie.  Since the movie was made basically for family and friends, there are also some interludes of miscellaneous mayhem.  As of December, the movie is complete and it is approximately 48 minutes in length.  We shipped about 15 VHS copies off to family and friends for the holidays.  Tracked up has segments from our ski adventures at the following locations:

The trailer was generated because I thought it would be fun to try (never made a web movie before), and it would hopefully be fun viewing for ski enthusiasts with access to the web.  I'm hoping it will satiate (at least in part) those folks that have been bugging me to see some of the footage.  The trailer gives a quick glimpse of skiing from each of the areas in which we filmed.  Technical information about playing the movie (to the degree which my rudimentary knowledge can help) on your computer can be found below.  If the technical part doesn't interest you, you can just skip on down to the link near the end of this page.
 

The footage for these scenes was shot on a JVC mini-DV digital camcorder.  More information on my camcorder can be found on Jay and Erica's Ski Page.  Using Adobe Premiere LE, I generated a file from some of our digital video clips in the form of a Quicktime movie.  Since native digital video contains way too much information for people to download reasonably, the movie was compressed and shrunk etc. with the following settings:

File Type - Quicktime
Compressor - Sorensen Video
Frame Size 180h x 120v
Frame Rate 10 frames per second
Quality - 50%
Audio Rate - 22 Khz
Audio Format - 8 bit stereo

You can make the view larger (not with any real gain in resolution) if you choose the size options in the Quicktime player.

I've tested playback of this clip on a Power Macintosh 7200 90 Mhz, Pentium II 350 MHz, and a Pentium III 450 MHz.  All worked well, although it seems that the better your monitor is, the nicer the picture looks.  When I tested this out downloading it from the web, both Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer just popped open the Quicktime Plug-in when I clicked on the link, then the trailer downloaded.  I assume that as long as you have your browser configured to open movies in this way, it will do the same for you.  I'm sure you can also simply download the file, save it, and open it in Quicktime yourself.  Let me know about any complications / suggestions about playing this Quicktime movie - jsilveir@zoo.uvm.edu.

If you don't have the Quicktime program, you can get a free copy here by supplying a couple lines of information.

Finally, here's the link to the trailer.  It's about 2 min. and 40 sec. long with accompanying music by the Charlatans U.K., so turn up your speakers if you have them.  I hope it works for you and you enjoy it.