A ski base with Matthias Giraud.

I got to film some amazing action the other day. Matthias Giraud skied off a 250 ft cliff on Mt. Hood called Mississippi Headwall. He did a backflip in the middle of this 250 ft fall, deployed his parachute and landed safely in the bottom of Big Zig canyon. One of the more exciting things I've ever shot with a camera. Check out the pic! He's the tiny lil yellow dot.

Matthias Giraud is one of the funniest humans I've ever had the pleasure to meet. Maybe It's this foreign French humor I've never heard before, I don't know. I can tell you that I heard some word combinations from him that I've never heard before, and it had me laughing all day long. Most of them x-rated so I cant really get into those stories. On top of his sense of humor comes his love for his family and life itself. This became obvious to me after hearing the way he talks about these two subjects. I asked him to write something for everybody and here is was he responded with...

Justin Wiegand

Matthias Giraud-

" I just got back from shooting with Justin Wiegand at Nimbus

Indenpendent right in his backyard also known as Mt Hood! Justin and I

got in touch a few months back. He wanted to film some ski BASE

jumping off Mississippi Head - a 250 ft cliff on the south side of the

mountain. After trying to coordinate it for a few months, we finally

got a window and everything fell into place!

This jump is one of my favorite because this is where I did my first

ski BASE ever. Moreover, the scenery is amazing with Portland on the

west and Mt Jefferson on the east. All this made me think about Shane

one more time. It hadn't been long since we lost THE MAN. Shane

actually came here last year after we opened this cliff and ski BASEd

it a few time with his best bro Miles Daisher.

He showed us what could be done and if any of us skier are ski BASE

jumping now it is because of him. He gave me some very valuable

pointers in the past such as "don't die" or "don't turn on the sink

with your wipe hand" and everytime I jump, he is on my mind. We lost

the master but the art is not dead and we have to keep pushing it.

Hanging out with Justin was awesome. He is one of the most passionate

person I have met about the mountains. We also had a very deep

conversation about his recuring dream of being chased in the forrest

by werewolves and other magical creatures, jumping off a cliff to

escape and stomping his landing everytime! In fact, his dream keeps

getting better and better over the years. Everytime the werewolf is

chasing him, he doesn't even bother outrunning it, he goes straight

for the cliff because it is just too much fun to fall. This requires

skills. In fact, his skills are soooooo great that I am pretty sure

Napolean Dynamite was referring to him when he was explaining how

girls like guys with skills - werewolf fighting skills, cliff jumping

skills, computer skills, editing skills, snowboarding skills, sledding

skills, snowball throwing skills -

I could go on and on...

Anyway, the point is: keep checking these updates, watch these webisodes

and new movie coming out called "Contrast" because shooting with these

guys is a BLAST and Nimbus Independent makes some of the best movies

out there. You can feel the stoke, the energy and it will make you

want to go fight a werewolf with your bare hands". Matthias Giraud