Monday, January 21, 2008

Hitting the Slopes

As the snow continued to fall, I kept wandering what would be something fun I could do in the snow besides the typical snowball fight, sledding, and football game. A group of my friends quickly came up with the idea of going skiing or snowboarding. I thought that would be a great idea, but I ran into a problem, I did not own my own ski equipment. Snowboarding and skiing is a big thing at Calvin as many students go every weekend and even during the week throughout winter. I was worried that ski rental would be expensive at the place we were going, but it turns out this place ran specials for students with a college ID. So Friday afternoon I took off with my friends Kurt, Alex, and Bart to go skiing and snowboarding at Caberfae for the night. On the hour and half trip up to Caberfae, I thought about the last time I had gone skiing and soon realized that it had been a long time. I started to get nervous because I was going with a group of experienced skiers and boarders.

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Posted by Jeff Grater on 01/21 at 03:24 PM
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