Miller's Thriller

I fucking love the show, dude.

I love it.

I want you in the movies.

My name's Rob Kingwell.

I grew up here in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

Growing up in Jackson, gonna high school here.

We had this group of kids

that just kinda lucked out in this TV

production class that we had.

So it was like me and Daryl Miller, Arden Oak Sandon,

Dan Adams, Damien Pittman and Jeff Pitts.

We were all in this class together.

We had to go film things for our class so

that we could make these little TV commercials

or whatever else that they were teaching us.

So we were allowed to leave school

and either go to the skate ramp and film ourselves skating,

or if it was winter, we could go to Teton Pass

so we could cut outta school early

and go ride pow and film ourselves.

We wanted to show people how cool it was

to be in the mountains here in Jackson

and you know, you just wanted to share that feeling

where it's like you just love being there.

You love doing what you were doing

and you wanted to show the whole world.

And that TV production class gave us a venue to do it,

and that was back in the day when there really wasn't a lot

of action sports filming going on.

You know, that was when Scott Schmidt was on the scene.

We had Glenn PLA coming into it

and there was like the extreme skiing revolution

and we were being influenced by guys like that

and wanting to do it on our own.

We were just really lucky to have cool teachers

that really supported what we were doing

and what we were passionate about.

It just showed how dedicated we were to, uh, actually like

producing these films about what we were doing on the hill.

We had access to Jackson Hole back in the day

when there wasn't anybody there.

It was pow and we just could go ride these epic lines,

film it and you know, come back

and be like, look what we shot.

He's booking now. Get faster, faster and faster.

Wandering away. Yeah. Nice.

He went to Fakey on that jump. That's a real hard move.

Snowboarding was really just right at the beginning,

like there wasn't any rules.

We still had like duct tape to fix up our bindings

and snowboards barely had edges at that point.

You know, it was the beginning

of like decent technology and snowboarding.

We were going places

and doing things that people didn't really think you could

even do on a snowboard.

Even at that point,

Jackson will had the first snowboard school in the country

started by Chris Pathis

and he kind of guided some

of us nascent little snowboard kids, um, how to ride.

We just had these like kind of godlike figures like Pathis

and Cisco, o, Donnie, Billy Bacon, all these guys

that were really like on the cutting edge

of snowboarding in some ways.

I think it was 1990, 1991 when they first, uh,

decided to build the super superpipe

here in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

And it was pretty much chiseled, uh,

into a rectangular piece with little hits.

Well, there's probably five or six hits

that you could hit off of

that would actually throw you back into the halfpipe.

Dan, leave it up.

First place is Dan Adams from Jackson. Yeah,

Right, Dan.

Then he wins a snowboard magazine

subscription and a skid play.

Arden Oak Sandin and I partnered up

and we had a little crew called Wannabe Productions.

We actually made a couple videos in high school,

one called Vertical Urges, and then Darryl Miller

and Jeff Tibbits were also in the class

and they were working on filming, skiing,

snowboarding, rollerblading.

Can you row What

a gun?

There was a point in time when, um, rollerblading

and kind of skateboarding, um,

started taking over in Jackson.

The city built a little ramp in town at the rodeo grounds

and we had Willie McMillan, Jeff Tid, Darrell Miller.

We just kind of went full bore, took over town

and just started terrorizing Town

and back when the rollerblading was cool,

It, I was

so in love with the sport of rollerblading at the time.

I was this close to getting a roller blade tattoo

and I'm so glad I didn't

'cause I could just imagine

where my life would be right now.

Ugh, That's scary. Shit.

Back around 98, Darryl Miller

and Jeff Hibbett started this window cleaning company.

I think it was called All World or something like that.

We started cleaning windows

and we saved our earnings from that

and bought cameras editing equipment.

We just started going out in the Tetons with our friends

and filming our adventures. A

Company's name was All World Productions.

We knew that we had the Terrain, of course,

the Teton Range.

We knew that we had a pretty sick talent pool,

which was our friends we were willing to throw down

for the camera and jump off Big Clips.

They Just started covering the scene and,

and scene what was really happening on like a non rockstar

level, like the TGR guys were covering, you know, the heroes

that were hanging around and Darryl was covering

the unsung heroes.

You know, there's so many insane riders here

and they're all so low key and they all get after it.

And Darryl started just filming these guys

and what was going on on a regular basis.

Yeah,

I knew that Darryl's Eye was a lot

better than mine in video.

You know, we kind of went our separate ways

and, uh, Darryl started Storm show studios.

I wanna make sure I don't come off like a cocky dick.

That's the only thing. My name is Josh Langdon

and I'm 34 years old

and I moved to Jackson Hole in the fall of 98.

First met Darryl Miller through Jason Elms.

Jason told me that his buddy wanted

to put together some ski videos

and I was pretty motivated at the time to, to help him out.

I think our first filming experience was the Lower Cliff

band on breakneck

guys like Jeff Tibbits Darrell,

Jason Elms, Damien Nelson.

How was that last Air? Man, that was Big D fucking

Huge. That first day

on the Breakneck Cliffs,

I think was the turning point for Darryl,

where he realized he could actually capture something really

special and uh, make some quality ski movies.

Another Really memorable moment

that we had was when we were over at Grand Taree filming,

just going really big off the, the backside Cliffs

with Pete Chrysler.

Yeah, yeah. Woo.

It was just your bros hanging out and pushing each other.

It was a ton of fun. It was no pressure.

I hate to use the term, but it was grassroots.

It was mellow. It was just us hanging out. It was awesome.

My first involvement

with Storm show was launching the Cliffs on the back

of the Gee, which I soon found out was some kind

of cruel initiation joke for the new guy.

Darrell called me up and said, Hey,

I'll film you if you go jump off these cliffs.

And I did. And my neck hurt for like two weeks

Having fun.

That was a big part of what we were doing.

It wasn't just trying to be rad out in the mountains,

it was enjoying life.

And that's, to me, it was really all about.

Yeah, it was fucking fuck. Good luck.

Did I hit the bigger one next

Hitting that big targe cliff hook that day?

I think, uh, I think I just went for it

and I almost shut my eyes once I took off

and that's probably why I landed on my back.

It just scared the crap out of me. Really. Chop

It, chop it, drop it now.

Yeah.

The bloody face. Yeah.

Ah, I feel kind of silly about it now, now

that I'm 34 years old actually coming up to

that line, I knew it was bad.

I backed off at the last second, scraped a bunch of rocks

and fell off this probably 40 foot cliff smacked my

face right into my knee.

Jeff.

Oh, mother the fuck

Off. I wish

I didn't do the whole super extreme guy thing.

That's kind of silly, but, uh, that was one

of the best times of my life almost, you know, that's some

of the best memories I've ever had.

Most epic moments skiing deep

powder snow with all my friends.

Today's gonna, When they say 17, they mean three.

These all closed area signs,

they're there for your safety.

Violators will lose.

The very first time I ever filmed with Darryl

was a huge powder day.