Down Time Episode 13: Finding your inner cowboy/"Minnesota? Really? Weird."

TJ Lanning may have grown up in Utah, but ask him where his heart truly lies and he'll likely answer Montana. "Nowadays, I get off the road, come to Utah for a few days and shoot up to Montana," said Lanning, who spent the better part of last summer on his family's sprawling mountain ranch where he lives in a trailer, makes some progress on fixing up a pair of old cabins on the property and just relaxing with friends. Lanning has always liked hunting, and he often heads east from Montana to another favorite family spot in the Black Hills of South Dakota to hunt pheasants. Lanning said he relishes the family time spent on the hunt and thanked his grandfather for introducing him to the sport.
    "We have so much pride for our state. It is awesome," Kaylin Richardson says of her native Minnesota. Not known for its vertical or powder skiing, Minnesota nevertheless has produced its share of World Cup racers because Richardson says running gates as a kid growing up was fun. "On these little ski hills they put up gates, and when you're little rugrats that's fun. It's a different type of challenge." Richardson did proudly show off the fact that her home mountain of Hyland Hills has two black diamond runs.    
    Ski Racing and Rival Films present episode 13 of the 16-week series Down Time: The Summer Sessions .

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TJ Lanning may have grown up in Utah, but ask him where his heart truly lies and he'll likely answer Montana. "Nowadays, I get off the road, come to Utah for a few days and shoot up to Montana," said Lanning, who spent the better part of last summer on his family's sprawling mountain ranch where he lives in a trailer, makes some progress on fixing up a pair of old cabins on the property and just relaxing with friends. Lanning has always liked hunting, and he often heads east from Montana to another favorite family spot in the Black Hills of South Dakota to hunt pheasants. Lanning said he relishes the family time spent on the hunt and thanked his grandfather for introducing him to the sport.
    "We have so much pride for our state. It is awesome," Kaylin Richardson says of her native Minnesota. Not known for its vertical or powder skiing, Minnesota nevertheless has produced its share of World Cup racers because Richardson says running gates as a kid growing up was fun. "On these little ski hills they put up gates, and when you're little rugrats that's fun. It's a different type of challenge," she said. Richardson did proudly show off the fact that her home mountain of Hyland Hills has two black diamond runs.   
    Ski Racing and Rival Films present episode 13 of the 16-week series Down Time: The Summer Sessions.

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