Aall right we are in the rental office at Lookout Pass
and I have drawn the short straw. Today I learn how to ski.
I spent 20 years snowboarding, haven't really stepped on skis before. There's a cool history
with Lookout Pass and ski school. They've had a program that's gone on for you know at least
20, 30 years where every Saturday they buss kids in from around the area and give them free ski
lessons. So a bunch of people who we've talked to up here have learned how to ski here. On those
Saturdays they came up as kids and now they're Lookout Pass skiers for life. All right well
this is the moment of truth i'm at the bunny hill. It's kind of humiliating after snowboarding for so
long to be back at the bunny hill but i'm pretty excited to learn how to ski even if i am kind of
teaching myself it's something i've wanted to do for a while and just never had the guts to do and
i don't know if this is the way to do it but...
Are you making a Youtube video?
Yeah. Can i be in it? Yeah what's your name? My name is Amin. Amin? Yeah and i've been
trying to do the bunny hill for quite a while and i've been doing pretty good surprisingly.
That a boy you're learning how to snowboard? Yeah sweet man keep it up. It's hard but challenging but also
easy at the same time. Well i think you're doing great keep at it you'll get it. I'm learning how
to ski for the first time so you'll be better than me. Nice. Yeah i snowboard so do a little switch.
All right on the chairlift there's no going back now gotta get down.
This is so hard. First time on the adult run
Chad this is my first time on the adult run what uh what advice do you have for me?
French fry all the way down baby just tuck it and go. I'm a little scared. You ready to graduate?
Ski tips up. What do i do with my poles? I don't know. Poles up. Uh-oh ski zips down, and here we go.
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So here we are day 12 of our Great North Idaho road trip and we are at Lookout Pass.
And the big thing about Lookout Pass is the locals love it because a lot of them
learn to ski here and we have brought our own man-child to learn to ski Brett Johnson
everyone. His instructor today is Chad Allen Case. Chad how many years have you skied. Since i was
14. Okay so 73 years Chad has skied. It is possible that i might throw just a few like spur of the
moment moves in there to see if you can handle it you know a little backflip, a little
kick-ass blaster, one of those. All right well i'm hoping for falls and crashes because i
think that's gonna make for a better video but good luck Brett and let's see how he does.
I couldn't let Brett learning how to ski be the final thing that you see in the series. So we skied
around Lookout Pass a little bit more, hung out, got some epic b-roll but at the end of the day
this was the story and uh we'll just leave it at that. From there we grabbed some pizza,
headed back to Wallace, stayed the night.
The next morning we drove to Spokane. That's a wrap North Idaho holy snikeys. We dropped
Chad off at the airport where he got on a plane and flew back home to Hawaii while Brett and i
took the eight-hour drive back home to Boise. And i'm tired, i'm really tired.
And obviously there was so much more to this story and so much more to this trip that
i couldn't fit into those seven episodes so if you want to hear more, if you want to learn more
we're going to be sitting down and doing a live stream on Thursday, 7 p.m idaho time.
Southern Idaho time which is mountain time, north idaho is pacific time but Thursday at 7:00
live streaming right here in the studio. If you have questions come ask them we would love to
have you and if you missed it then uh feel free to to watch it. I'm sure i'll put a card or something
somewhere, an episode link down in the description so yeah. What a wild experience, what a crazy time.
It would have been really easy for us to turn on each other and uh that never happened. I mean sure
we annoyed each other. Dude come on. But we stuck together i mean we stuck together we were in it
together. It was a process and we never got on each other. When one person
was having a bad day the other one would lift them up and we saw a piece of this state that
many people will never see and never experience in their lifetime and i'm extremely grateful for
that. And that's really all adventuring is right? It's experiences that hopefully change you, they
help you grow, they help you become better in your normal everyday life and to everyone that gave us
a hand, that helped us out, that gave us a meal or lent us their snowmobile or showed us a mountain
or just took time out of their schedule to show us their home and to let us experience it i'm truly grateful.
Those are the things that really made the trip special and um i'll never forget those people.
Yeah as always thanks for watching and we'll see you next time.