The show aired at 6, 8 and 10 p.m. in downtown Rexburg. Over 700 tickets were sold to these showings. This was the first year the BYU-Idaho Outdoors Activities has teamed up with the Recreational Director of Rexburg to host Higher Ground.

“This year we can promote more and offer more lift tickets because it is not on a private campus,” said Gabe Chariton, Rexburg Recreational Director.

On a private campus such as BYU-Idaho, there cannot be public advertising that is why this year had more prizes and give-away.

At each showing, the Sled Shed gave away two T-shirts, Kelly Canyon gave away two full-day lift tickets and Grand Targhee gave away two full-day lift tickets. Warren Miller took one entry from each show to enter to win a new Jeep Commander and each winner of the free entry received a Warren Miller home video.

Other than the freebees, the film put skiers in the ski season mindset with the extreme skiing and new places Warren Miller took the audience.

“This movie makes me want to ski or snowboard. I will come back next year [to see next year’s film],” said Krista Campbell, a sophomore from Newark, Del.

The skiers in the movie ranged from age 5 to 86. Young Bridger Gile, a kindergartener from Aspen, Colo., showed the pros how to race down the towering mountains of Aspen and then finger-paint.

According to skier Jeremy Bloom, Klaus Obermeyer, an 86 year-old-skier has “major mojo” to still be able to ski the mountains of Aspen, Colo.

There is not a site so secluded from commercialism like the snow-covered mountains of Alaska, where a good portion of the skiing took place.

“The vibration from my skies would shoot up through my body and into my skull, causing my eyeballs to bounce around in their sockets and making it difficult to focus,” said Chris Anthony, in Warren Miller’s Snoworld 05/06 edition.

Anthony skied at a recorded 89.3 miles per hour in the five-mile, legendary Artic-Man race in Alaska.

“It was fantastic,” said Bowman Lapp, a junior from Vancouver, Wash. “It gets me pumped for the first day of ski season.”