Why can no one do a documentary on the AT of this quality?

[RITBlake]

Watched this on Netflix tonight.

http://www.ridethedividemovie.com/

Blows away any AT Doc I've ever seen in production quality.

[rocketsocks]

Sweet, real nice looking. In answer to your question, I don't have a clue, but I sure do think your on to something there, maybe it'll happen, thanks for posting, I'd sure like to see the whole show, looks great!

[leaftye]

It's a heck of a lot different when you have a crew that can follow you can driving on most of the path, everyone can sleep in hotels many times, and the entire trip is days instead of months. I think the last part is the biggest issue because you'd have so much more video to store and edit with a hike. Also, hiking and support would cost much more. I haven't watched it in many months, so I forget some details, but I remember that it was a totally different type of trip. It's a nice trip though. I home I'm able to do that trip someday.

[RITBlake]

Good Points:

• It's a heck of a lot different when you have a crew that can follow you can driving on most of the path
• everyone can sleep in hotels many times
• the entire trip is days instead of months
• you'd have so much more video to store and edit with a hike.

[DogPaw]

NatGeo did a very good one on the Appalachian Trail, titled exactly that. It's on Netflix if you want to go watch it.

[T.S.Kobzol]

I can do it but you'd need to pay me lotta money first :-)

[Two Speed]

Watched this on Netflix tonight.

http://www.ridethedividemovie.com/

Blows away any AT Doc I've ever seen in production quality.

It also blows away all the movies I've seen about bicycling, kind of a tough act to follow.

[Suckerfish]

I had the task of sitting through southbounders, horrible movie, watch it but just know this, it is very painful to watch.

I think if someone did a documentary on the AT just filming georgia the Ga and NC section the first month of hiking to see how many bail out would be very good, just to show how tough the trail can be

Also would be cool if they did a race like ride the divide.

[RITBlake]

NatGeo did a very good one on the Appalachian Trail, titled exactly that. It's on Netflix if you want to go watch it.

I saw that one too. That was a hardly a documentary about thru hiking. Don't get me wrong, the photography in that was sublime, but I'd like to see a doc with the production value of the Riding the Divide filmed applied to the setting of an AT thru hike.

[DogPaw]

http://thebackpacker.tv/2009/11/appa...al-geographic/

I think this link has it, if anyone wants it.

[Danl]

I have them both one on dvd the other on my ipad. Love watching them both. I have just finished the AT by NG for the fourth time in the last year and feel the need to get my hike started. Imagine how long a film would have to be in comparison. Abt 39 day ride on a bike ( almost 2 hrs ) vs 6 times that on a thru hike crammed into a 2 hr movie. What kind of content would it include. Maybe like someone said earlier the first 30 days.

[RITBlake]

Abt 39 day ride on a bike ( almost 2 hrs ) vs 6 times that on a thru hike crammed into a 2 hr movie. What kind of content would it include. Maybe like someone said earlier the first 30 days.

I don't really buy this... The other night I watched a two hour documentary on WWII and they managed to tell one story that spanned several years.

[Mags]

Watched this on Netflix tonight.

http://www.ridethedividemovie.com/

Thanks for the tip.

Just finished watching it tonight.

Though I do not mountain bike, the GDMBR parallels, intersects, and joins the CDT in many places.

More importantly, the emotions, camaraderie, beauty and exhilaration of being out there is the same as any person who makes a long journey.

Good stuff.

(In an odd twist, Matthew Lee and myself had a ah,um, spirited exchange over SPOT on CDT-L. Thought I recongnized the name from the doc and I looked at my e-mail. Sure enough... Small word. It ended well as he sometimes comes to Boulder and we agreed to that we had to buy each other pints of Java Porter next time he gives a talk at U-bikes. After seeing the film, I think it would be a lot of fun to have a pint or two with him..)

[Rain Man]

Also would be cool if they did a race like ride the divide.

Mountain bike race the AT? Horrible idea! The illegal bikers on the AT are bad enough as it is. Open it to racing (even a single race) and the illegal bikers would suddenly multiple like locusts, leaving a wake of destruction like locusts.

Rain Man

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[RITBlake]

Mountain bike race the AT? Horrible idea! The illegal bikers on the AT are bad enough as it is. Open it to racing (even a single race) and the illegal bikers would suddenly multiple like locusts, leaving a wake of destruction like locusts.

Rain Man

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Maybe he meant a race on foot? I liked in the biking documentary how they showed the map at the bottom of the screen and the different dots to mark the position. If you watch the documentary, it's really not a race of any kind, they spend more time encouraging and helping each other then they do competing.

[Suckerfish]

Mountain bike race the AT? Horrible idea! The illegal bikers on the AT are bad enough as it is. Open it to racing (even a single race) and the illegal bikers would suddenly multiple like locusts, leaving a wake of destruction like locusts.

Rain Man

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I meant a race on foot, a hiking race. How cool would that be...

[RED-DOG]

The best film/Doc i have seen, it is called ( TREK ) i think it was made in 05 about three thru-hikers hiking the AT. RED-DOG

[Kerosene]

we agreed to that we had to buy each other pints of Java Porter next time he gives a talk at U-bikes. After seeing the film, I think it would be a lot of fun to have a pint or two with him..

Mmmmm....beer!

[Saprogenic]

It would be nice to have a documentry of a thru hike where the entire film isn't filled with complaining.

[SunnyWalker]

Look up film maker Lynne Whelden.