It’s raining dirt! Here’s how they did it

We ran a story on the original ‘brown pow’ clip from the fantastic UnReal film a few weeks ago.
http://singletrackworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/unreal-dirt-blizzard-video/

Perhaps, like us, you’ve been wondering how the film makers covered some of Whistler’s best-known trails with inches of soft, brown dirt… Well, here’s the ‘Behind the scenes vid’ for you.

Incidentally, according to a friend of ours who’s a Whistler trail builder, the trails that were covered in the ‘brown pow’ were subject to an unusually high proportion of black bear sightings and encounters. So if you don’t want bears in the garden, then don’t use what they did. 🙂

Chipps Chippendale

Singletrackworld's Editor At Large

With 23 years as Editor of Singletrack World Magazine, Chipps is the longest-running mountain bike magazine editor in the world. He started in the bike trade in 1990 and became a full time mountain bike journalist at the start of 1994. Over the last 30 years as a bike writer and photographer, he has seen mountain bike culture flourish, strengthen and diversify and bike technology go from rigid steel frames to fully suspended carbon fibre (and sometimes back to rigid steel as well.)