I went to the Banff Mountain Film Festival last night at the Bagdad Theater.

We saw shorts on kite snowboarding in Finland ("Entropy"), crazy mountain biking in British Columbia ("Trial and Error"), rock climbing in England, and ice climbing in abandoned Swedish mines. The feature was a documentary called "20 Seconds of Joy" on a Norwegian woman's addiction to base jumping.

Although quite long at almost an hour, I thought "20 Seconds" was an excellent insight into adrenaline addiction. The other films were fine, but I missed the fun-loving/humorous element from previous festivals (anybody remember the rock climbing dog?).

I wish the Banff folks would find a way to publish an annual DVD series so we could see more of the submissions! One night is not enough...