evo Hotel Tahoe City
evo hotel Tahoe City is curated by iconic snowboarder and Tahoe local Jeremy Jones, bringing his passion for the area to life throughout the hotel. Located in Campus Tahoe City, along the shores of Lake Tahoe, a mecca for year-round adventure. This hotel is an outdoor cultural hub featuring curated rooms, a happening bar restaurant, gear rentals and demos, a gallery and creative retail experience.
Mountains of the Moon is more than just a film – it’s an exploration of what’s possible when inspiration, creativity, performance, and cinematic ingenuity collide.
Experience an unforgettable night in Tahoe City with evo and the Tahoe Art Haus. Begin at the Tahoe Art Haus with a live-scored screening of Mountains of the Moon, then continue the celebration at the Sierra Surf Club with an immersive liquid light show, inspired cuisine and drinks, and live music to carry the night.
Tickets are limited.
From the fevered imagination of artist, professional freeskier and filmmaker, Chris Benchetler, comes a unique cinematic vision, featuring the world’s greatest action sports athletes in a host of surreal and otherworldly environments, set to the timeless music of the Grateful Dead.
Showcasing professional athletes across ski, snowboard, surf, freedive, mountain bike and climb, in a new dimension as they perform their sports in the dark wearing custom lightsuits built by Arc'teryx.
Pushing boundaries of what can be done at night with cameras, lights, lasers, and animation, Mountains of the Moon transports viewers to a world of infinite beauty and possibility, ultimately celebrating our shared humanity and connectedness.
Chris Benchetler is a professional skier and multidisciplinary artist who has redefined the intersection of sport, art, and nature. Raised in California’s Sierra Nevada, his deep connection to the outdoors fuels his creative expression—from murals and custom skis to boundary-pushing films like Fire On The Mountain and Mountains of the Moon.
Through his work, Chris celebrates the interconnectedness of life, using light, movement, and storytelling to inspire a deeper appreciation for the planet.
Chris will be joining us in Tahoe.
evo hotel Tahoe City is curated by iconic snowboarder and Tahoe local Jeremy Jones, bringing his passion for the area to life throughout the hotel. Located in Campus Tahoe City, along the shores of Lake Tahoe, a mecca for year-round adventure. This hotel is an outdoor cultural hub featuring curated rooms, a happening bar restaurant, gear rentals and demos, a gallery and creative retail experience.
Serving it all from breakfast & lunch, to dinner & cocktails and featuring the best seats in the house overlooking scenic Lake Tahoe. This is the spot to be for hotel guests and locals alike. Stop in and say hello, meet new friends while you're at it, and enjoy a good time.
The best part? 100% of Sierra Surf Club's profits go directly to Protect Our Winters.
At the heart of campus, the retail shop offers top gear for skiing, snowboarding, mountain biking, and more, plus curated accessories for any adventure. Seasonal rentals include skis, snowboards, and bikes, while our service shop provides expert tuning, mountings, and boot fitting to keep your gear performing its best.
Early on, Michelle had to decide whether to pursue skiing or soccer. While she chose skiing, she never lost her team player mentality. From ski racing to freestyle, Michelle artfully blends her love for all things snow when big mountain skiing.
Blazing through competitions and dropping world-class ski film segments, Michelle proved to be a force majeure. She has maintained an aura of grace throughout the highs of her greatest achievements and the lows of her injuries. Her benevolence towards everyone around her has made her an esteemed global athlete.
Michelle is not only a trailblazer for female athletes in ski films, but she is also a star on the production side. When she isn’t dropping crazy lines, she can be found strumming her ukulele or taking care of her 100-plus compost worms.
From landing her first sponsorship at age 8, the trajectory of snowboarder Elena Hight’s career has been a steady upward curve – taking her to the US Snowboard team from the precocious age of 14 into the maelstrom of professional half-pipe competition for the next 16 years.
Her talent took her all around the world, to two Olympics games, and the top spot of the X Games and the US Open.
Through it, she developed self-care practices including meditation and breathwork, that helped her find moments of peace in a hectic schedule where very little is in your control. These practices, as well as the attributes that made Hight such a progressive athlete, flavoured her post-competition emergence as a big mountain rider, a journey she documented in the 2020 Teton Gravity Research film Blank Canvas.
Hight believes that curiosity, not competition, is the driving force that fuels the world of winter sports, and that it’s important always to seek ways to open space – space to grow personally, and space to grow the sport and opportunities for others, especially women.
Her willingness to try something new, even if that meant publicly exposing herself as a rookie for the first time since childhood – resulted in the start of an apprenticeship as a big mountain rider, as well as Blank Canvas, which she shared with the hope it will “inspire people to get out of their comfort zone and pursue the dreams that often are quite scary and that mean leaving behind what you know.” Hight’s lifelong connection with the natural world, planted during her infancy in Kauai and childhood in Lake Tahoe, has deepened into a profound sense of gratitude and a fierce desire to protect the Earth.
Nelson-raised Sam Kuch modestly attributes his otherworldly air awareness to his mom, a hardcore competitive gymnast and black belt in karate, who put Sam and his siblings through their paces on the trampoline and in the gymnasium.
Growing up in the Selkirk Mountains, and gaining his chops competing for four years as part of Whitewater Ski Resort’s freeride team, Sam attributes his down-to-earth energy to kind-hearted parents and the under-the-radar community of Nelson. He endured two seasons of disappointment, crashing instead of qualifying for the Freeride World Tour, before a timely text on closing weekend of the 2017-18 season asked him to play local tour guide for a film crew. Sam’s demonstration of the lines that made Whitewater great became a sizable part of the ensuing film and landed him “Discovery of the Year” award at the International Freeski Film Festival.
Within one season, he went from being a roofer who ripped aka the best skier no one had ever heard of, to an icon, spinning and stomping everything in his sights, winning a swag of Best Of awards.
Disarmingly humble in the face of his sudden celebrity, Sam is grateful to be tending the almost-lost dream of being a pro skier, and committed to enjoying the ride, giving back, and soaking up all that he can learn, be it in the mountains or working alongside his father as a carpenter.
Alannah won her first National Climbing Championship at the tender age of 12. Today she’s Canada’s top “Overall” climber and part of the historic first wave of Olympic hopefuls who are evolving the sport of competition climbing.
Alannah grew up in Vancouver and spent her childhood in the mountains. Her local gym was home to Canada’s top competitors and coaches, and as a young climber, Alannah drew inspiration from the warm camaraderie and support.
She brings focus, stoke and formidable brain power to everything she does whether it’s building a training wall outfitted with sensors, rapidly analyzing a competition boulder move, or ripping a gnarly line on her mountain bike.
She’s a third generation engineer whose specialty is Mechatronics – or robots. Alannah has always remembered her roots, and as a coach for the Climb Base 5 North Shore Youth Team, she graciously trains younger climbers and gives back the support she received as a youth.
How does a skateboarder become the youngest person to free climb El Capitan in a day? Growing up in Texas, Sam Stroh’s tendency to go “all in” was on full display.
When he found climbing at the age of 17, his capacity for investment shifted from the concrete bowls of Houston, to the canyons and crags of New Mexico. University led west, towards Smith Rock, Yosemite, Indian Creek, Joshua Tree, and pandemic disruptions meant Stroh informally majored in climbing. He traded his truck for a van and took full liberty of “hybrid learning”, writing papers in Yosemite’s Church Bowl parking lot, and climbing as much and as hard as he could.
Powered by a frothing keenness, canned chili and chocolate bars, power playlists and a sense that unfettered time was a limited commodity, Stroh turned his attention to El Capitan where, at 20, he became one of the youngest people ever to free climb Freerider in a day. By 22, he’d also free climbed Golden Gate, and climbed El Corazon in a day.
Now that his window of opportunity to climb full-time is staying open, Stroh is exploring how he can generate a contribution that is genuine, artful and inspiring. He has begun to balance his intensity with intentionality, to ground his exploits in a strong broad foundation. He still has the list of goals he scratched out as a teenager but thinks of those “stepping stones’’ as part of a long journey towards becoming the climber and the human, partner, friend, son and brother, he ultimately hopes to be.
Hamish Mcarthur’s climbing journey began when his parents, exasperated by their five-year-old’s urge to scale everything, fibbed about his age to get him into a local gym. What started as a safe outlet became a lifelong passion—one that stuck even as he grew into his 6-foot frame.
From regional comps to international youth events, Hamish quickly gained attention, becoming the youngest member of Team Great Britain at just 12. But the pressure of being a prodigy eventually stalled his progress. After years of winning everything he entered, Hamish suddenly found himself on the international youth World Cup circuit, unable to punch through beyond 4th spot. “I couldn’t figure out how to break through and win, to stop climbing defensively to not fall, rather than to get to the top.”
Then came the pandemic. With competitions on pause, Hamish rediscovered climbing for its own sake. Free from pressure, he trained harder than ever. In September 2021, he returned to win both bouldering and lead at his final Junior World Championships—then podiumed at the Senior Worlds weeks later. Now, he’s chasing gold at the 2024 and 2028 Olympics.
In his downtime, Hamish brushes up on existential philosophy to keep his life perspective in check, and relaxes by cooking, playing chess, and skateboarding.
Talented and unassuming, alpinist Mike Gardner was a true climber’s climber. He passed away at age 32 while attempting the unclimbed north face of Jannu East, in Nepal.
Mike excelled at doing things fast and light, blazing up rock walls and across mountain peaks with trusted partners he loved. Continually drawn to the remote reaches of the planet - Antarctica, the Himalayas, Alaska, the Grand Tetons, Mike’s motivations were pure; to push the boundaries of sport, and do it with ethics, style and homage to those who came before. He climbed and skied for the sake of the craft, not for recognition, impressing everyone with his lack of ego and genuine enthusiasm.
Mike was a proud second-generation mountain guide. Born in Ridgway, CO, he spent his childhood chasing his dad everywhere from the Tetons to Nepal. His first mountaineering trips were at age eight, and he became one of the youngest guides Exum ever hired.
He lost his father in a climbing accident when he was 16 - he wrote about the parodox of the mountains giving and taking for Alpinist in 2022, while also evoking the simplicity and spareness of an existence he revelled in - “an expression of life rather than a fight for survival”.
Named one of the best skiers under 18 by Powder magazine, he moved on from the competitive freeski scene to seek more personally testing objectives, but was always a wildly beautiful and bold skier. He got an education degree, and devoted his life to the mountains. Industry veterans rated Mike’s ascent on Father and Son’s Wall as worthy of a Piolet d’Or award. He made climbing and skiing expeditions on every continent and never spent twelve months in a row in a single place.
A skateboarder, skier, climber, enthusiastic skijorer, writer and mountain guide, he refused to be boxed in by any label and pursued anything that intrigued him. Humble, playful, thoughtful, he was beloved of many, not just for his exceptional abilities, but for his curiosity, optimism and his gift at holding space for other people to flourish in the mountains.
Tyler Hamlet is an award-winning action sports Producer, Director and Director of Photography.
He has worked in the action sports industry for twenty years. Through his years in action sports he’s adept at persevering in adverse and challenging scenarios.
As a former US national freestyle skier with a degree in Cinematography, his passions combine to bring his creative eye and approach to the mountains and outdoor narratives. Starting as lead cinematographer, Tyler went on to produce and direct many full-length feature films with ski and action sports production company, Poor Boyz Productions.
Tyler has since gone on to run numerous high level productions garnering accolades including Movie of the Year, Best Editing and Best Cinematography from IF3 (International Free-ski film festival) and Powder Magazine. Tyler also works on the ESPN’s Real series, a short documentary series for Red Bull Media House, and feature-length action sports films. Although he’s well versed in getting the shot on the side of the mountain, he's most passionate in the midst of a verite scene or human interest stories. Tyler has also been a long time collaborator with Chris Benchetler and has recently helped produced and C0-Direct “Fire On The Mountain” and “Butterfly in a Blizzard”.
When he's not holding a camera, he’s usually swimming with his Newfoundland, Mountain biking and most recently learning to sail in preparation for the Race to Alaska.
Cody Carter is an award-winning video editor with over two decades of experience in visual storytelling.
With deep roots in action sports filmmaking, Cody went straight from high school to a technical college to learn production and follow his passion.
Despite discouragement from teachers about action sports filmmaking and its longevity and future he followed his passion and skills—quickly becoming Lead Editor at Poor Boyz Productions for eight years. In that time, he earned multiple Best Editing awards from X-Dance, iF3, and Powder Magazine. During this era, Cody met Chris Benchetler, beginning a creative partnership built on trust and vision. Together, they’ve produced iconic projects, including the original Fire On The Mountain.
Today, Cody’s work spans documentaries, branded content, and fast-paced short-form visuals for clients such as ESPN, Red Bull, and major outdoor and lifestyle brands. Known for his cinematic eye, editorial precision, and instinct for rhythm, he creates stories that keep viewers fully immersed while pushing the boundaries of post-production.
When not in the edit suite, Cody enjoys skiing, biking, and spending time with his wife and son.
Alexandra Meiners was a pioneering force in heli-skiing, celebrated as the sole female heli-ski operator from 2014 to 2021.
She took over Alaska Rendezvous Heli-Guides (ARG) and Alaska Rendezvous Lodge (ARL) following the passing of her father. She steered the operation with unwavering commitment to safety, snow science, and a familial ethos.
Under Ali’s leadership, ARG solidified key partnerships—such as outfitting their team with Tecnica Blizzard gear—and cultivated transformative guest experiences rooted in her father’s legacy. Known affectionately by guides as both impressive and approachable, her leadership earned the ski industry’s #BOSSLADY nod.
After closing a transformational chapter at ARG, she transitioned her leadership and operational savvy into the creative sphere—joining forces with artist and skier Chris Benchetler as a producer on Mountains of the Moon.