Digitized materials from the Gary Nate ski film collection
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Donated by Gary Nate in 2021.
Collection kept the original order from donor.
Gary Charles Nate, a skier and longtime cameraman for Warren Miller Films, was born in Ogden, Utah on June 8, 1937. After a high school football career at Ogden High School, he went on to play running back for the University of Utah. After an injury derailed his scholarship funds, Gary worked for the railroad, as a recruiter for Hill Air Force Base, and as a school teacher.
In 1973, while promoting his first ski film, he reached out to Warren Miller with an offer to work as a camera man, who in turn hired Nate. During his 40-year career with Warren Miller Films, Gary documented the evolution of the ski and snowboard industry and filmed many skiers around the world.
Nate passed away on February 15, 2024, in Ogden, Utah.
Information sourced from Gary Nate's obituary.
Collection Name, Collection Number, Item Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.
The Gary Nate ski films consists of his work with Warren Miller and other skiing footage in Utah. Footage includes places such as Hill Air Force Base, Snowbasin, Snowbird, Brian Head, and Nordic Valley, and shows skiers freestyling (or "hot dog"). Collection also includes
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Forms part of the Ski and Snow Sports Archive.
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Commercial music.
With Warren Miller.
Chris Apostle Coach, Norris Johansen Back Field Coach
Silent color film by Gary Nate showing Bob Burns, Bob Salerno, Kenny Wright and other skiers practicing early freestyle skiing moves, including aerials and moguls, in the 1970s. Some of the scenes are at Sun Valley, Idaho.
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Silent color film by Gary Nate showing Bob Salerno and Hans Rebe practicing early freestyle aerial skiing jumps into a pond at Nordic Valley, Utah, in 1978.
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Color film by Gary Nate in which narrator Warren Miller recounts the history and amenities of the Snowbasin ski resort. Nate and Miller made this film in the early or mid-1980s, after the resort was acquired in 1978 by Pete Siebert, who previously founded the Vail ski area in Colorado. Manager John Murphy then discusses plans for the "Trappers Loop" expansion. Many scenes show skiers descending the slopes through deep powder.
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Silent color film by Gary Nate showing skiers practicing early freestyle moves, including aerials and moguls in the 1970s. Some scenes are in slow motion. One scene shows the liftoff of a hot air balloon. Another scene shows two skiers skiing down a steep mountain, possibly triggering an avalanche. Locations unidentified, but some scenes are probably in Utah.
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Silent color film by Gary Nate showing Bob Burns and other skiers practicing early freestyle skiing moves, including aerials and moguls, in the 1970s. Some of the scenes are at Park West and Snowbird resorts in Utah, Carnival '74 at Brian Head, Utah; and a moguls tournament at Sun Valley, Blaine County, Idaho, United States in Idaho. In one scene, they practice flips on a trampoline. In another scene, an announcer with ABC's Wide World of Sports interviews someone [probably Stein Eriksen] at a Nordic event in Park City, Utah.
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Silent color film by Gary Nate showing Bob Salerno, Dean Perkins, and other skiers practicing early freestyle skiing moves, including aerials and moguls, in the 1970s. Some of the scenes are at "Airborne Eddie's ski camp" in Oregon; Alta's 9th National Gelande contest in 1973; and others.
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Silent color film by Gary Nate showing Bob Burns, Dean Perkins, [Tom?] Leavitt, Bob Salerno, and other skiers doing moguls and other powder skiing, in the 1970s. Some of the scenes are at Sun Valley, Idaho; Snowbird, Utah; and other locations.
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Silent color film by Gary Nate showing Bob Burns, Kenny Wright and other skiers practicing early freestyle skiing moves, including aerials and moguls, in the 1970s. Some of the scenes are at Nordic Valley, Snowbird, Brian Head (at Carnival '74), Park City and Snowbasin, Utah, and Sun Valley, Idaho.
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"Lived in Utah, 17 years old best run Olympics. Both on US Ski Team."
Silent color film by Gary Nate showing skiers in downhill races and doing aerial freestyle jumps, probably in the 1970s. Locations vary, but one is at a "Carnival," probably at Brian Head, Utah. Also included are home videos of a small child learning to walk, and a man outside his home, possibly at Sun Valley, Idaho.
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Silent color film by Gary Nate showing Wayne Wong and other skiers performing early freestyle skiing moves, including aerials and moguls, at Sun Valley, Idaho, probably in the 1970s.
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Silent color film by Gary Nate showing Becky Salerno and other women in bathing suits doing some spring skiing at Snowbasin, Utah, probably in the 1970s.
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2 reels.