I/O Bio was proud to present the first annual Gathering at Red Mountain March 13-15, 2009. John Falkiner, Ace Kvale, Marko Shapiro, Paolo Tassi and John Eaves were only a few of the many legendary skiers, photographers and filmers who visited Red Mountain last week for the first annual Gathering. As chronicled in the current issue of Ski Journal, John, Marko and Ace along with a crew of friends perfected the free-ski alpine lifestyle, melded mountaineering with mogul-mania, fashion with free-dog, and managed to stay under the radar to all except the cognoscenti of the ski and mountain industries.
The Gathering at Red celebrated a remarkable convergence of these international adventurers who have crossed paths in far-flung locations but have rarely been captured in the same place at the same time. Saturday night marked the end of a three-day powder-filled ski fest culminating with an evening of slide shows and videos by these international artists as well as locals from the Kootenay region. The audience was wowed by the level of talent and quality of imagery during the presentation and finished off the evening dancing in the Rafters pub to the rocking blues tunes of seven-time world freestyle ski champ John Eaves and the Blues Riders.
