Remembering Tate MacDowell

Tate MacDowell is a soul that inspires filmmakers, action sports athletes, artists, and cancer fighters for generations to come. He will be remembered through the art he created, and people he touched.

Filmmaker, painter, poet, mountaineer, friend, father, husband. RIP Tate MacDowell.

Tate made a name for himself in the action sport industry as a filmmaker by making ski movies and then later editorial action sports films. Based in North County since 2008, he is a considered local legend around these parts. Tate was diagnosed with cancer just a few years ago, and while undergoing treatment he saw a picture of the Grand Teton at the doctors office, he made his decision to summit it (at stage IV of metastatic rectal cancer). 

 

Heres his film, Mountain in a Hallway, a documentary going into his attempt of finding creating meaning when you’re feeling defeat. The reality of confronting life’s greatest challenges can be beautiful when you start to take advantage of every moment given to you. Even when you’re not diagnosed with cancer. Here’s to Tate MacDowell and his legacy of being a rad individual, savoring ever moment.

Here’s an podcast hosted by Shelby Stanger just a year ago on October 10, 2018 on Summiting Grand Tetons with Chemotherapy.

 

Here’s a poem by Tate’s + His Photography

 

MOUNTAIN IN THE HALLWAY

A walk within fluorescent caves

All alone, scared but brave

At the end a mountain hung

Reluctant Journey just begun

As I walked

a man would follow

All in black

His hood was hollow

I lost him once

But it was felt

To stop the man

I hurt myself

The path I took

I can’t recall

Focus set

beyond the Hall

Nowhere to run

I tried to flee

To poison him

I poisoned me

Locked and loaded

with no guns

I shot the man

With many suns

Finally I reached the wall

The mountain and I standing tall

I could touch it, feel it, see

Through the mount, reflected me

From his hood

These words did spout

“What truth be found

atop this route?”

To which I smiled

Though I hadn’t yet done it,

Turned and said

“I am the summit”

We love you Tate

❤️

 

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