Last winter, as Daniel Harper worked on his first full-fledged ski movie, he got the call: a big storm was headed to Lake Tahoe. There was a problem, though. Harper was in Jackson, filming another segment, more than ten hours away by car. He raced overnight down mountain highways and through blizzards so he could make it in time for the opening of Palisades Tahoe’s iconic lift, KT-22.
Along the way, it snowed so hard that Harper occasionally couldn’t tell the difference between the road and the sky. He made it, though, and when Tahoe local Noah Gaffney sliced a few beautiful McConkey turns down the Fingers the next morning, he had his camera ready.
The moment highlighted all the glorious bits that make skiing, well, skiing, with a hectic storm chase bookended by the perfect line. But the 2025-26 season provided far too few of those joy rides. Harper set out to make his movie with big dreams. When a historic snow drought hit the West, he also got an education in flexibility and an all-too-apt film name: Low Tide.
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The patch of turbulence arrived early in Harper’s career, both as a filmmaker and a snowboarder. Growing up in Georgia, he played football and only caught the snow sports bug at 18 when he moved West to attend college. In the hills, he found a passion for videography, too, and Harper, now 22 and a resident of North Lake Tahoe, coined his efforts Zero G Films.
While Harper dropped a movie last fall called The Unknown, it was a no-budget project. He said he considers Low Tide the first “through and through ski film” from Zero G. Originally, the movie was supposed to have another name, but as the season got underway, Harper decided it didn’t fit (he’s keeping the original name under wraps and plans, most likely, to use it this coming season).
“It was a terrible winter, and there was barely any snow,” he said. “We just went with Low Tide. I pitched it to the athletes and the sponsors, and they all loved it. And it just seemed it was more fitting and more authentic for the winter that we had.”
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The new movie brought more athletes—Gaffney, Josh Gold, and Isaac Kaufman, to name a few—and more sponsor support. Those are all great and exciting things, but with more riding on Low Tide than on his previous film, the tough winter started stressing Harper out.
Trips got canceled. Harper planned to shoot more in the backcountry than proved feasible. He botched an interview segment with snowboarder Tilden Wooley, who spent much of his summer in Chile, so Harper had to do some last-minute editing. But when things got heavy, he found inspiration in his pops.
“He instilled a solid work ethic in me, and to not really ever give up on anything, and I’ve always seen him work really hard through some pretty hard situations,” Harper said.
He also saw a silver lining amid the wet snow and patchy grass.
“I think not having such an insane winter allowed me to slow down,” Harper said. “There are so many lessons that I learned this winter about safety and production and how to interact with the athletes and how to kind of manage the team while also still being able to enjoy it.”
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Thankfully, it wasn’t only the school of hard knocks. Harper shared some highlights. During his first day in the Tahoe backcountry, he filmed snowboarder Shayne Blue Sandblom hucking a meaty cab underflip. The trip to Jackson produced plenty of tantalizing pow shots. He was stoked to see how much his Wyoming friends, who also appeared in The Unknown, had progressed over the past year. The deep snow they found didn’t hurt, either.
Then, of course, there was the race for KT-22. When Harper finally pulled into Tahoe after hauling over from Jackson, he couldn’t get to his place on Donner Summit because there was too much snow. He crashed that night at Gold’s house and headed to Palisades when dawn arrived. The line for KT-22 looked how it often does when the snow piles up: thronged with antsy skiers.
From the lift’s base, the Fingers are visible, a famed collection of rocks and chutes that draws the best of the best on powder days. That’s where Gaffney, who caught one of the first trips up the mountain, made a beeline for.
“He just took like three turns down the Middle Knuckle and was down it before you knew it, and after that, everybody was just so stoked to finally get some blower turns and solid conditions,” said Harper.
The no-holds-barred run may mark Low Tide’s high point and, when it first went down, received plenty of admiration around the Lake. Gaffney’s uncle and longtime Matchstick Productions filmmaker, Scott, wrote in an Instagram comment at the time that it was “arguably the best Fingers line ever.” Harper’s lens work captured the thrill.
With an additional segment shot in Sugar Bowl and Palisade’s terrain parks—plus footage captured when conditions did line up—Harper left the 2025-26 season with more than memories and new skills. He also had a movie and a fresh perspective on a culture where he’s still a relative newcomer. This was only Harper’s fourth season snowboarding, after all.
“I think this winter just kind of showed me that it’s more about the community at the end of the day than it is about getting this trick or sending this line,” he said.
Check out screenings of Low Tide at Alibi Brewing in Truckee (October 22) and Highpoint Cider in Victor (November 6). Get there early, and you could score a free issue of POWDER Magazine.
Related: Snow Has Arrived at Silverton Mountain, Colorado and Skiers Are Making Powder Turns
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