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The crew had about 10 feet of snow to work with, even in the middle of summer, he recalls, and they used snowcats to move the snow as needed to make it look like northern India (notwithstanding the lodgepole pine trees). Vane says Mammoth was the first and last location they scouted for the snow scenes. The 1982-1983 winter season was one of the snowiest winters on record, with more than 670 inches recorded at UC Berkeley’s Central Sierra Snow Laboratory. Mammoth got a lot of snow last year.” Fortunately, he was correct. Vane recalls feeling hesitant about the charge, until Steven Spielberg encouraged him, telling him, “It’s fine.

“ Frank Marshall and I have always gone back and forth with teasing each other,” says Dick Vane, the location manager for “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.” “So he said, ‘Oh, I got you a job,’ and I said, ‘Great, what is it?’ And he said, ‘Oh, we’re going to shoot a snow scene in August.’ And I said, ‘No, come on, really. Our hero and his team successfully ride an emergency exit raft down the snowy slopes of the “Himalayas.” Screenshot via YouTube How the Sierra Nevada became the filming location In fact, anyone keen to go white water rafting can get out on the same rivers Indy paddled back in the early 1980s. And some scenes with the actors were shot quite close to Lake Tahoe.

#Disneyland virtual queue indiana jones movie#

While anyone who’s seen the movie likely knows the scene, they likely don’t know it was shot in California's Sierra Nevada. Naturally, Indy’s iconic fedora stays firmly on his head the entire time. Forced to make a speedy exit, the three of them jump from the plane in a deflated emergency exit raft, fall presumably no less than 10,000 feet onto a snowy slope, and then slide down that slope, only to fall off a massive cliff, launching themselves onto Class IV and Class V white water rapids before floating their way to safety. Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford), Willie Scott (Kate Capshaw) and Short Round (Ke Huy Quan of “Everything Everywhere All at Once” Oscar fame) find themselves trapped in a propeller plane intentionally emptied of gas. Mammoth Mountain was the location for Indy’s snow scene shot in August.