Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Path Video

Here's the video. The goal in making this was to document the whole climb. As a result, it's not quite as action packed as the modern climbing films that usually just give a general impression of routes. Unfortunately the raw footage is not the best -- the lighting conditions were bad, the filming angles were difficult, and there was lots of background noise. Anyway, I did my best to edit something together that shows what the climb is about. I think the side and back angles don't do justice to the steepness of the climb, but hopefully the top down footage tells that story.

Hope you enjoy.

The Path from Matt Wilder on Vimeo.

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8 comments:

  1. Lee CujesAugust 13, 2009 at 6:59 PM

    Cool indeed. You should experiment with running shaky footage through the image stabilizer in iMovie or other editing packages. It can turn the unusable into the usable.

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  2. akornAugust 14, 2009 at 12:34 PM

    Nice send Matt! - Great to see you are still killing it - Andrew

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  3. poindexterAugust 16, 2009 at 7:55 PM

    Nice one man. It's cool that you got video of the climb. It deserves to be shown in all it's glory! Congrats on finally linking it. And it was really interesting to see the different beta that you figured out for all the different sections- the begging right off the ledge, that funky little rightward traverse section before that weird flaring seam that I just lie-backed and you hand-jammed in with your opposite hand (good work figuring that out!), and way different beta for the upper crux! Sick. Thanks for sharing.

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  4. poindexterAugust 16, 2009 at 7:56 PM

    PS. You end up getting the send on Existence?

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  5. J VAugust 17, 2009 at 1:16 PM

    Nice work Matt!

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  6. Matt WilderAugust 19, 2009 at 8:14 PM

    Didn't end up sending Existence. Was super close but got hosed by weather on the last day. I'm pretty sure it would have gone down if conditions were good.

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  7. Dave CassidyAugust 23, 2009 at 11:01 PM

    Fantastic Job! I was out there this weekend and the video does no justice, super impressed. How did you like the whole Canadian climbing scene? and do you think you would recommend it to your bros down in the states? Hope you had a good time, oh and did the sponsors put you up in the chateau? ahah

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  8. UnknownFebruary 11, 2010 at 4:45 PM

    Great job man! Super nice looking line. Do you by chance have song credits?

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