After a beyond hectic travel schedule due mostly to weddings we were back home…..for a day. Our next adventure led us up to Driggs, Idaho to visit the 22Designs crew. After traveling with a backpack on airlines to bypass the baggage charge, this trip we took the biggest bags we could, because we could.
The workers a workin
We took the non-dramatic route up to Driggs not really knowing any better and pulled in right around 4pm. It must have looked like we were moving in for a week with the size of our bags, no we were just there for two nights. Our good friend and 22Designs Co-Owner had been out the days previous hunting Elk. Shaun had also made an off hand comment that if Chris killed anything, she would eat it. Well it just so happened that, on the first day of the season, Chris got an Elk. To those of you who don’t know my girlfriend, she doesn’t eat meat and hasn’t for the last 10 years, so this was a big deal.
Chris’s wife, Lane, cooked up the elk even though it was still so fresh and we had ourselves a feast. Shaun took an Elk medallion and ate it like a champ, to say I was proud of her is an understatement!
The next day we watched the worker bee’s assemble the famed Axl binding. This was my first time seeing the process and it was extremely cool to see all the improvements the guys have made over the years. Its definitely more complicated than one would think and it takes several steps to get it ski ready. All throughout our time packages came and went at the house. Some times they were bindings being shipped but more often than not it was late the late arrival of parts.
ahh, Jackson
Shaun and I did make it over to Jackson for a little bike ride in Cache Valley on a fun little trail called Putt-Putt. We walked around the shops, acted like tourists and had a good ole’ time.
One of my all time favorite shops
It was great to get to hang out, meet more of the 22Designs crew and catch our breath in the mountains. Next up: Miami