Premières traces, Mémoires du Mont Sutton

Étienne Benoit

Sandwiches frozen in coat pockets, trails cut by sheer muscle, skis made from scratch — skiing
at Mont Sutton began long before a family of dairy farmers with no business building a ski
resort decided, in the 1960s, to do exactly that.

Through rare archival footage and firsthand accounts from skiing pioneers, First Tracks, Mem-
ories of Mont Sutton tells the story of how a band of adventurers first began exploring and
skiing the mountain — and how, a few years later, the remarkable ingenuity of the Boulanger
family would transform this wild terrain into one of the most beloved and deliberately unpol-
ished ski mountains in the Appalachians.

From the legendary Jack Rabbit Johannsen to the slightly mad vision of Réal Boulanger, the film plunges us into a deeply human adventure driven by resourcefulness, passion, and a pro-
found love of the mountain — and of everything that has always made it refuse to be anything other than itself.

In presence of Étienne Benoît.