Friends and Film Night
FEATURING:
QUEEN OF THE CATSKILLS
and
STIll excited to ski
Jan 24, 2026
NORTH Adams, MA
Doors open @6pm
Movie starts@ 7pm
Q&A to follow
ABOUT:
Queen of the Catskills
After a series of traumatic events, a high school English teacher in the South Bronx begins retreating to the mountains looking to heal. As the wilderness starts to mend her spirit, she rediscovers a past love of skiing, and embarks on a multi-year quest to become the first woman to backcountry ski 33 of the highest peaks in the Catskill Mountains—alone.
JAMIE KENNARD
JULIE McGUIRE
Jamie Kennard purchased a camera in 2022 after losing his wife to cancer and began a self-taught journey into filmmaking, creating a series of vignette films and the award-winning ski documentary, VARIABLE (2024). Jamie is also an accomplished ski mountaineer who, along with his brother, completed a historic 12-year quest (2012-2024) to ski all 81 of the Catskill and Adirondack High Peaks—the first complete ski of the Catskills, the first ski of the 46 Adirondack mountains since 1996, and the only complete ski of both mountain ranges, ever. He lives in Woodstock, NY, in the heart of the Catskill Mountains, where he continues exploring the intersection of outdoor adventure and storytelling through photography, filmmaking, and writing.
Julie McGuire is a high school English teacher, outdoors enthusiast, and avid backcountry skier. On November 30, 2024, she completed a four-year journey to become the first woman to ski all 33 Catskill High Peaks. Julie volunteers as a trail maintainer with the New York-New Jersey Trail Conference and serves as a board member of the Catskill 3500 Club. She also volunteers with Winter4Kids, where she teaches her students from the South Bronx how to ski. She is currently pursuing a new project to ski the “lower 67,” with hopes of becoming the first person to ski the 100 highest mountains in the Catskills.
ABOUT:
STILL EXCITED TO SKI
AND
NOAH DINES
"Still Excited to ski" follows Noah on his incredible journey to skin 3.5 million vertical feet in a year!! Noah will be available to answer all your questions after the film. Noah grew up and learned to ski in suburban Boston. After college he moved to Maine here he really fell in love with the sport and eventually learned how to ski tour on a decades old telemark setup at the Camden Snow Bowl. After moving to Stowe, VT in 2019 Noah became heavily involved in the backcountry community and began to love long days of big vert during the pandemic. This led to Noah skiing 3.59 million vertical feet of human powered skiing in 2024. He currently lives in Stowe, VT and is still excited to ski!
A few statistics about his amazing feet:
2024 totals
6082 miles Skied
2,268 hours skied
3 pairs of boots
12 pairs of skins
5 sets of skis