Mountain Movers

Mountain Movers is a television series airing on the National Geographic Channel. The show features the company Snow Park Technologies, as it develops snow parks for various international winter sport events.[1] The show's first eight episodes include the development of competition courses for the Winter X Games[2] as well as the Winter Dew Tour and U.S. Open of Snowboarding.[3] The show is produced by Good Clean Fun, and includes examples of how the construction of performance venues requires working in dangerous conditions such as avalanche country or blizzards.[4] Filming of the first season occurred between October 2012 and March 2013. It debuted on May 9, 2013.[5] The chief characters of the show are the employees of Snow Park Technologies and its founder Chris Gunnarson.[6][7]

References

  1. "Mountain Movers". Retrieved October 24, 2013.
  2. "Nat Geo’s Mountain Movers episode 3 "All Hands on Deck" airs May 30". Snowboard Magazine. May 29, 2013. Retrieved March 23, 2014.
  3. Henrik Lampert (May 9, 2013). "SPT Mountain Movers premieres tonight on NatGeo". Free Skier. Retrieved March 23, 2014.
  4. Kimberly Nordyke (February 12, 2013). "Nat Geo Going Behind the Scenes of Extreme Sporting Events". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved March 23, 2014.
  5. Seth Lightcap (May 8, 2013). "Mountain Movers". ESPN. Retrieved March 23, 2014.
  6. "Mountain Movers". Tahoe Daily Tribune. May 8, 2013. Retrieved March 23, 2014.
  7. Al Saracevic (May 6, 2013). "Mountain Movers: The story behind the half-pipe". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved March 23, 2014.
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