Photo Gallery: Seasons Stills By The Collective

Seasons is a film about some of the world’s best and most interesting mountain bikers, told through the course of four seasons of one year. The film starts in the winter, capturing the different activities of the riders in the off season, if it can be called that. Some riders are training and practicing new tricks in preparation for the year ahead. Others are enduring the elements, deep in the forest, building trails for completion in the spring. We get to know our characters personally, and eagerly anticipate what they have in store.

The pent up energy of the winter explodes onto the trail and through the veins of the riders who wel-come the onset of spring. We see them reaping the rewards of the newly built trails. The level of riding sets the tone for the entire year, and the bar is set high from the start. The stories of the riders are care-fully intercut amongst each other – some of the riders start to cross paths. Others do their own thing.

The days get longer as the sun continues its trek northward. Summer has arrived, and brought with it the search for new lines, new trips, new tricks, and new stories. For some of the riders, summer means the heat of competition. Others shun the limelight, preferring to spend their time in the middle of nowhere, sessioning custom built lines shot by thousand foot cable cams, or ripping singletrack in the glow of a late summer sunset. Either way, the depth of their stories gives insight into the lives that they lead and the sport they have dedicated themselves to.

Leaves turn from green to yellow, orange, and red. For those who remain standing, it is the pinnacle of the season. Form has been perfected, tricks are dialed, and the level rises before our eyes. Their intercut stories become one, and we are onlookers to the grand fi nale that will forever leave a mark on those that have beared witness.

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