Filming with Matchstick Productions for over a decade has meant that Michelle Parker Myshellparker and Eric Hjorleifson eric_hjorleifson have done a lot of skiing together. . She’s known him since she was 17, when they were both new to the crew at High North summer camps on the Blackcomb Glacier. . “She was this super young, super talented, up-and-coming female skier,” remembers Hoji. “They built a huge jump to film. Michelle basically guinea’d it and did the biggest 3. Just so smooth. It was like, okay.” “He’s been a huge motivator for me,” says Parker, now 30. “I would tell all my friends in Tahoe, ‘I just have to be able to keep up with Hoji on the skin track.’” . January 2016, they were shooting Ruin and Rose with Matchstick. Parker had spent November and December pounding out daily ski-touring laps in Squaw Valley’s backcountry, chasing her imaginary quarry. When she arrived at Golden Alpine Holidays’ Sentry Lodge, in BC’s Selkirk mountains, she felt fit, strong. They toured and f...