After a very busy day at work, I was able to finish packing for the SLC Snowkite Trip. I was able to get all my camera gear into two bags, and clothes and riding gear into two more. Jason picked me up around 9pm and we headed north to Virgins Beach to pick up new Real Team stickers and crash for our 5am flight.
We headed to the airport around 4:30am to then realize that our flight wasn’t until 7am. We still had to go drop one of Steve’s friends off at the airport, we would be just a little early for out flight. The luggage check in went smoother than expected. We got on our flight to Chicago in a very empty flight which we were both excited about.
Luckily, I have never been one to get uncomfortable while flying when there is turbulence. Unluckily for the lady across the aisle, she does. We hit a patch of “rough air” as the captain called it, and this lady just started flailing her arms as if she was trying to cool herself down on a hot day. Weird! We hopped on another flight and were headed for SLC.
We got picked up by Tyler, the event organizer, and Shannon Best. From there, we meet up with amy, tyler’s personal assistant, and Big Ted and headed for a quick lunch before going up the mountain to check into the room.
After we meet up with Big T we drove up to the mountain to get the housing in order. It was a great adventure with Shannon Best in the car. He is a character, full of some great stories. By the time we made it up there and got into the rooms we realized we had to bolt it back to Salt Lake City for a TV interview.
We barely made it to the TV interview on time only 20 minutes late. It was cool to see the interview go down. In the interview were Arla J. Funk (who has the best goggle tan), Jason and Tyler. It was a good short, interview on live TV (to add some nerves). We got to be in the studio while they were filming, which was pretty cool.
Then we headed back to Tyler’s house and packed up the rest of the gear and even had time to snap a couple shots along the way. Then it was another long drive back up the mountain. Finally out of the car and the gear in the condo we meet up with Llew Simmonds and Kristy Moller. After a couple drinks we called it a night.
More photos HERE.
Check out the full trip here: Day1, Day2, Day3, Day4, Day5, Day6, Day7, Day8, Day9.
