Welcome to Stanley, the coldest town in Idaho. Winter here is another animal. Long nights seize
engine blocks. Avalanches close highways. Everything is just a little bit harder below freezing you
know? But as we turn the corner and days lengthen the citizens of Stanley gather. A celebration under
snow-capped Sawtooths. A time of old traditions many have forgotten. Fellowship, laughter, mirth. And in
this moment of time we come together and in one voice say hey winter, is that all you got? This
is Sawtooth country. We're made by the cold and we'll be back for it year after year after year.
Welcome to Winterfest let's get weird.
See here's the problem with Winterfest it just starts so hard.
Let's try this again it's just late it's just that kind of it's just it's just late okay.
I'm making coffee it's 11:15. it's the end of day one Stanley Winterfest. There's just paraphernalia
and alcohol all over the place. Brett is just getting started on editing. I have to edit a
video by 8 a.m it's already 11:15 um i haven't started yet we should probably start dumping cards
and um this is where i'm gonna start this youtube video and i don't know what i'm gonna do
uh what the end product is going to be but i'm sure we'll figure it out along the way
right? No one has faith, all right hit the music.
It's almost a feeling of like everyone's been cooped up in the winter and uh here we are
finally getting out getting back out into the sunshine. That's the other thing we had
beautiful weather for this winter fest which just was just amps it up an even another notch.
It's such a i mean it's such a short event but i don't
know how they could even possibly make it any longer no one can survive more than 36 hours of ahh.
I mean night one was just a banger we just kicked it off right it started at seven
Papa Brunees downtown uh before making our way to the k-club and velvet falls and the supper
club and just getting weird. After just partying so hard and working night one you wake up day two
and these absolute savages these animals that i mean most of them i saw were out the night before
and then at 8:30 they show up to the Stanley high country inn for a like 20 mile fat bike race
through the Sawtooths. Again at like nine in the morning in Stanley Idaho
like one of the coldest places in North America and that's what i love about this event it's the
people at this event. Winterfest is such a small event there's only so much lodging in
Stanley so there's only so many people that can come and show up and
the type of people that you get are these kinds of people. I mean it sounds kind of cliche but they
party hard but they live harder is that a is that a thing? Like a person that wants to party hard on
friday night and then wake up and just get their adventure on and push themselves in that aspect
i mean that's just that's just that's the person that's at winterfest and that's why
i think i love the event so much is is the people that are there that are experiencing
it they're just they're my kind of people. They're sawtooth people man.
When you're there with those people it's just you all connect you all connect on a different
level over a love of adventure, over a love of that place, and you celebrate it. That's why i love that
event so much that's why i'll be back year after year. So cheers to you Stanley to Winterfest
to all of you that i partied with this weekend. Thanks for watching and i'll see you next time.