The Blizzard of AAHHH's

I first saw this when skiing in Italy back in the day. They had it on in one of the bars there.

I was gobsmacked and bought the Vhs as soon as I got home.

This film is just the best ski film ever. Everything works, the music the skiing and the awesome scenery.

I've seen it dozens of times and never get bored, Hattrup, Plake and Schmidt gel so well together.

I've recently bought the ski film Steep as Ahhs came as a bonus disc. As it turns out both are awesome ski movies but I still prefer Blizzard overall.

I can't watch this film ever- w/o it shooting me right back to those times. Sometimes we'd have a full day of skiing, then go home to settle in and watch Blizzard of Ahhhs for the umpteenth time! We lived for waiting for Greg Stump or Warren Miller to release their magic.

Oh how important this film was to us skiing enthusiasts who could only dream to ski with, or meet Glenn Plake or Scott Schmidt.

Those of us who would live for skiing and trying to copy any of their stunts...halfassly...surely can relate to those times.

We were so blessed to have lived in those amazing times, along with all of our flowing fluorescent colors and hyper graphix shirts!

I still have one of them shirts!...and it's even cooler today than it was back then!

This film to skiing is what Fleetwood Macs Rumour's is to music. Top draw, the best.

For '88 added Scott Schmidt to Mike Hattrup and Glen Plakes awesome skiing talents and then decamped to Chamonix. ZTT were back with music from Frankie, ACT, Nastyrox INC and Propaganda. I even recognised a tiny bit of Dire Straits on the a radio broadcast.

Everything just fitted in this movie. The speed skiing segment at the start, the introductions that were just the right length, the loose story line, the badness of Glen Plake, the sillyness of Cookie the Swede, the little interviews with Mike, Scott and Glen. It all just hit the sweet spot.

Forget Warren Miller or Willie Bogner, this is where the real action is. Only Maltese Flamingo comes close, and that was like a demo version of Ahhs.

So you owe to your self to go and search for Ahhs, in what ever way you can find them...

And even if you don't ski, give it a look, the music and scenery are outstanding.

Are you kidding me? If you are into skiing or ski movies at all, no matter how old school or new school, you can't say this movie isn't awesome. This one started it all. Clearly, there were other movies before it, but this was the first that really gave us that look into what alternative/extreme skiing could and would become. So many of us remember watching this with wide eyes and realizing that's all we wanted in life was to ski like Glen Plake or Scott Schmidt. I'll never forget the first time I heard that narration, "Glen Plake...Ultimate Extreme Skiier...Original BAD BOY." Man, I'm going to go pull out the old VHS and watch it again. Catch ya on the slopes!

When I was in high school skiing was my passion and this film soooo perfectly captured every emotion I had surrounding the sport. My childhood would have been significantly more drab without this epic. (And despite the lack of huge cliff drops or Mohawks Hattrup was the MAN!!)