At first, the snow in the Wasatch was pretty thin and it left us with very minimal options.
On our way there we ran into some money complications.
Luke and I made the drive whilegoing only 65 most of the way.
This turned a normal 8 or 9 hour drive into 11 hours.
Thankfully, we finally made it to Reno and met up with Cameron Fair of the VisualCollective.
The snow was not too deep, but a massive storm was rolling in.
The storm rolled in and we had some major sled issues to fix.
Back in Utah on the previous day, the A-Arm’s and shock on my sled gave out.
During that adventure, we found out why scott polls are so expensive.
Anyways,we spent the second day replacing some parts that came from the totaled snowmobile.
At least that thing is still good forsomething.
Day Three was calm in the morning.
Not too much fresh snow yet, so we went out to a zone to build a jump.
We got out to the spot and built a nice looking cheese wedge.
Right as we were finishing up another storm began to rollin.
The winds picked up and it started puking, so we got out of there.
Day Four started with snowy skies and several feet of fresh snow.
We headed back to the zone where the jump we built the previous day was.
Basically that mistake ended up costing us the entire dayof trying to get him back out.
The storm briefly broke and we decided to ditch the sleds and just get pillow shots.
The next day we got up at 4 am to roll out to Blue Lakes with the sleds.
The snow was deep.
Im talking around 70-90 inches of fresh from the beginning of the week.
The morning started off rough with my belt on my sled finally giving out.
That was a quick 5 minute fix though.
After around 3 hours of building, some forest service rangers started heading our way.
If you don’t know, what that guy said was complete and total BS.
They ended up tearing our jump down and began trying to fineus 200 dollars for pretty much no reason.
The rest of the month turned out awesome in Utah.
We didn’t get a million shots a day, but the footage racked up nicely.
Our original plan was DC,but it ended up no one could go due to the Aspen Open.
With hope running out on a DC trip, wenoticed that Pennsylvania and Ohio were getting hammered with snow.
Needless to say, that’s where MattHeffernan and I find ourselves at this very moment.
Next blog update to be from this East Coast/ Midwest Urban trip.
Be sure to keep an eye out for our collaborated product next fall.
The teaser is only a couple months away from dropping too!Take it easy.-BentleyAtteberry.
