Crew Brew + Movie Night – a 2022 TKO Leadership Summit event

TKO brings together the organization’s leaders and partners for a special in-person social hour and movie night!

Join TKO at our Portland office for a fun, in-person social hour and a short film viewing. TKO will provide beverages (compliments of our friends at Level Beer!) and light snacks.

Sprit of the Peaks (40min run time)

Connor Ryan is a Hunkpapa Lakota professional skier, but much of his time skiing has been on Ute land. He’s long questioned his relationship to this ancestral land. We follow Connor as he explores tensions that define the outdoor spaces we love and our relationships to these spaces. Specifically exploring themes of reciprocity, recreating on Native land, as well as land and water use related to outdoor sports and the ski industry. On this journey, Connor spends time with Ute leaders and youth, as well as his long-time mentor and fellow professional skier Cody Townsend. Through this film, we seek to break the mold of a classic ski film by elevating Indigenous voices and perspectives.​

Writer/Co-Director/Talent: Connor Ryan (Hunkpapa Lakota professional skier)​

Executive Producer: Len Necefer (CEO NativesOutdoors)​

Produced by Wondercamp, in partnership with NativesOutdoors

Special thanks to REI for sharing this film with the TKO audience!

The TKO Leadership Summit Event Series is open to folks who are:

• Current Crew Leaders – CLs/ACLs and;
• TKO Board and advisory members and;
• Other local community volunteers, Agency staff and partners who are interested in learning our leadership structure – if you’re wondering if this is right for you, please email natalie.ferraro@trailkeepersoforegon.org to start the conversation.