Home, Sick! Too Good To Leave

When I read the SFGate headline, "Your favorite Tahoe bartender could be a secret ski movie star", I was intrigued, as was Chris, Jan, and Steve. We all agreed seeing this brand new film would make for an incredible date night.

Premiering at Tahoe City's Tahoe Haus & Cinema (previously the Cobblestone), we drove around the Lake for a true night on the town.
We arrived early for dinner at Rosie's Café and some game playing, too.
More about the reason we were in Tahoe City in the first place. Home, Sick! Too Good to Leave is not just another ski movie. The Tahoe-based filmmakers shot all the winter ski scenes in the Sierra Nevada during 2023’s massive winter, which brought more than 750 inches of snow to the region. According to the filmmakers, that made the snow not just too good to leave, but also too deep to leave, with many roads and highways closed for days on end. 

Side note: this is one of the coolest movie theaters ever. We'll be back!
"Like most ski movies, the impressive film is packed with drone shots of athletes hucking enormous backcountry lines, backflipping off high-elevation cornices and carving picture-perfect lines on Tahoe’s deepest backcountry steeps. But unlike most ski movies, the stars aren’t the professional or sponsored athletes you’d recognize from the Olympics or big-name ski events: They’re the dudes who serve drinks, maintain vacation homes and keep Tahoe’s tourism industry humming along." And they were such fun to just be around.
The movie was shot during Lake Tahoe’s heavy winter, enabling the group to shoot on terrain that would normally never be skiable. That includes steep slopes next to Tahoe’s main roads, and the former Hilltop Ski Slope behind Truckee’s Cottonwood Restaurant, famous for installing the first mechanized ski lift on the West Coast. The entire time, I was on the edge of my seat. These guys are awesome and their enthusiasm was infectious. The movie's trailer is worth watching. Turn your volume up and click here. There is no better way to showcase the THRILL that is this film.








Home, Sick! is the second movie from the group of friends who call themselves Ski for the Love. Josh Anderson, far right, says that the name sums up their main motivation for putting so much time and effort into making ski movies — because they love the sport. “We all got together and it was like, well, we’re going to be out doing this anyway, so let’s try to make our own cool thing while we’re out there,” he says. Oh man, truly the coolest!

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