Harkin befriends a group of fun-loving skiers led by freestyle veteran Dan O'Callahan, who are also competing in the Championship and call themselves “The Rat Pack”.

The next morning, Rudi brags about his conquest with sleeping with Sunny and provokes Harkin before the ski ballet segment.

Despite Harkin's excellent performances on the moguls and aerials, Rudi also wins these two competitions and is crowned the superior freestyle world champion.

While one after the other falls, Harkin and Rudi at the front engage in a close race, which the former ultimately wins by the narrowest of margins.

Hollywood producer Edward S. Feldman was impressed by Marvin's stories from his time as a ski filmmaker and offered him the prospect of a feature film if he could put these experiences into a screenplay from an athlete's perspective.

[4] Originally planned in Aspen, filming finally took place in Squaw Valley, California, in the snowy winter of 1982.

Mass start races of this kind had a certain tradition in many ski resorts, even if there was no brutal physical contact like in the film.

[4] According to the participants, in addition to generous pay, there was a lot of free time between shoots, which was spent celebrating wild parties.

[4] Janet Maslin, writing in The New York Times, gave a generally positive review, describing the film as "light and less moronic than it might have been.

[4] Frederick Reimers and Sam Moulton of Outside, in a 2016 retrospective article, criticized the film's one-dimensional plot, use of sexist and racist stereotypes and gratuitous nudity.