{"id":20390,"date":"2014-02-21T10:00:02","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T15:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/?p=20390"},"modified":"2016-05-12T15:08:54","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T19:08:54","slug":"la-and-chicago-hit-the-slopes-in-aspen-for-x-games-and-they-were-stoked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/2014\/la-and-chicago-hit-the-slopes-in-aspen-for-x-games-and-they-were-stoked\/","title":{"rendered":"LA and Chicago hit the slopes in Aspen for X Games &#8211; and they were stoked."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gear, check. \u00a0Thermal underwear, check. \u00a0Beard for warmth, check. \u00a0Off to Aspen we go!\u00a0 Veteran X Gamer, Mr. Dan Lowrey and I hit the slopes our first day there to check out the landscape at Buttermilk Mtn, host of this years Winter X Games. \u00a0Armed with GTT&#8217;s best gear and warmest boots, we shot ENG for this years events. \u00a0Capturing everything from athlete arrivals, big air\/halfpipe\/slopestyle finals, gold medal ceremonies, X FEST, X concerts, gold medal interviews&#8230;literally everything the X Games had to offer was at the end of our lens. \u00a0I consider this shoot a &#8220;bucket list&#8221; shoot. \u00a0If I could tell the 15 year old me that I shot X Games in Aspen, well he would think I&#8217;m pretty radical (common 90&#8217;s lingo). \u00a0 Highlights were as follows: \u00a0Figuring how to get a backpack, a 30 lb camera and full size tripod to fit on the back seat of a snowmobile for rides up and down the mountain was tedious.\u00a0 However, by day 5, I was a pro. \u00a0Also, seeing these athletes pull off tricks in person I could only attempt in my dreams was absolutely amazing. \u00a0 We had the best seats in the house for one of winter&#8217;s greatest events. \u00a0 Stoked!<a href=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/assets.gototeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/12201332\/664288_10201453250880002_592005501_o-300x229.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20391\" alt=\"664288_10201453250880002_592005501_o\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/assets.gototeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/12201332\/664288_10201453250880002_592005501_o-300x229.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/assets.gototeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/12201331\/1743649_10105889518374854_219949218_n-300x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20392\" alt=\"1743649_10105889518374854_219949218_n\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/assets.gototeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/12201331\/1743649_10105889518374854_219949218_n-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/assets.gototeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/12201330\/69068_10105884906527034_1466063884_n-300x223.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20393\" alt=\"69068_10105884906527034_1466063884_n\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/assets.gototeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/12201330\/69068_10105884906527034_1466063884_n-300x223.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gear, check. \u00a0Thermal underwear, check. \u00a0Beard for warmth, check. \u00a0Off to Aspen we go!\u00a0 Veteran X Gamer, Mr. Dan Lowrey and I hit the slopes our first day there to check out the landscape at Buttermilk Mtn, host of this years Winter X Games. \u00a0Armed with GTT&#8217;s best gear and warmest boots, we shot ENG [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":24672,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[140,2137],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20390"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/120.72.95.94:55167\/assignmentdesk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}