Southbonders, the movie

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#1

Has anyone seen this movie? ‘Southbounders’.
Here is their trailer: Experience life on the Appalachian Trail like never before! Finally, see the movie that explores the world of long-distance hiking on America’s legendary mountain trail. Follow three “thru-hikers” as they journey from Katahdin in Maine to Springer Mountain in Georgia over a magical summer, and discover what it means to “hike your own hike.”
Olivia (Amy Cale Peterson) decides to “thru-hike” the legendary Appalachian Trail, a continuous footpath running along the Appalachian Mountain chain over 2,000 miles from Maine to Georgia. The journey will take months to complete, and Olivia is ill-prepared for the rigorous journey. An outsider to the unique world of the AT thru-hiker, Olivia is quickly befriended by hikers Rollin (Scott Speiser) and Slackpack (Christopher McCutchen). As the three hikers journey South from Maine, Olivia is drawn to the charismatic but private Rollin, and is forced to question her motives for hiking the trail.
Shot in the summer and fall, Southbounders captures the unique American beauty of the Appalachian Trail. See this amazing world, and the hikers that live in it, in a film that Film Threat declares “feels more natural than most Hollywood films and has a subtle realistic charm.”

Somebody will be showing it at Traildays. Go to www.southbounders.com for more details.

Bilko

#2

Yes, I’ve seen it.

Sly, a Triple Crowner, arranged for it to be shown at the SoRuck in January.

It’s made for a general audience, but it was pretty well done, filled with tons of telling details only a long distance hiker or thruhiker on the AT would notice - pitching the maildropped deodorant “mom” sends into the hiker box, for example. I believe the producer or director actually hiked the trail. Anyway, the actors did a good job, and it was a fun romp. I’d watch it again.

Jan LiteShoe

#3

The music, all original, is pretty good too.

Skyline

#4

We saw it at the Rockies Ruck,Mags had it.A pretty fun watch.I’m going to buy it.TTG:lol

tattoogranny

#5

So is it a doumentary or not?

cece

#6

Not at all a documentary. It’s basically a romance, definitely fiction, and fun. Because the director was a thruhiker, there are parts that only another thruhiker will really identify with. He played around with locations, merging towns and having a few places out of linear order which a non AT hiker wouldn’t notice at all, but at the Ruck we had fun picking apart though not in a negative way, since we all recognized that this was fiction and the director has a right to artistic license, just because we had such vivid memories of the trail, the oddities stuck out. It’s not great cinema, but it was a fun watch.

Ginny