Statement: “I believe that my family likes to be outside.”
Being outside can mean more than just walking out the door. To my family it is when we spend most of our time together. Growing up in rural Vermont has made the most of my ability to use that time. Whether it be on a mountain, in the woods, or by a stream I am hardly ever by myself. My parents grew up this way and I am thankful they have given me the same opportunities in life.
A opportunity that I was given is skiing.I started skiing around the age of six. A weekly morning trip to Cochran's in order to make a day's worth of runs up and down the t-bar was just the beginning. No one in my family does not ski, So when we go it is normally all of us. The times that only a few go can be the best. One time with my dad I skipped school to skia big snow front that was coming in.We had hiked out to the north side of Castle Rock, which is a chair lift that has some of the best glades in Sugarbush and from all the fresh cut turns the …show more content…
Every Father’s Day we head out for the LCI derby that is three days of fishing from four in the morning to seven at night. For the past few years we have been able to catch a twelve pound Lake trout and place in the top ten in the Junior Cold Water Division. A ten pound plus Lake trout s normally one in every twenty five and a fifteen is probably fifty, during the tourney we can do a couple hundred fish but never seem to catch a big one to win the prize which can be a couple of thousand dollars and maybe a boat depending on the year. To enter a fish in the junior category you have to be younger than fifteen, so I am no longer allowed to real anything in. My job now is only to set up the rod after someone else has used it. After doing both catching the fish and helping set up, it has made me realize that the fun and memories I thought were from catching fish are actually from spending time with my
Being outside can mean more than just walking out the door. To my family it is when we spend most of our time together. Growing up in rural Vermont has made the most of my ability to use that time. Whether it be on a mountain, in the woods, or by a stream I am hardly ever by myself. My parents grew up this way and I am thankful they have given me the same opportunities in life.
A opportunity that I was given is skiing.I started skiing around the age of six. A weekly morning trip to Cochran's in order to make a day's worth of runs up and down the t-bar was just the beginning. No one in my family does not ski, So when we go it is normally all of us. The times that only a few go can be the best. One time with my dad I skipped school to skia big snow front that was coming in.We had hiked out to the north side of Castle Rock, which is a chair lift that has some of the best glades in Sugarbush and from all the fresh cut turns the …show more content…
Every Father’s Day we head out for the LCI derby that is three days of fishing from four in the morning to seven at night. For the past few years we have been able to catch a twelve pound Lake trout and place in the top ten in the Junior Cold Water Division. A ten pound plus Lake trout s normally one in every twenty five and a fifteen is probably fifty, during the tourney we can do a couple hundred fish but never seem to catch a big one to win the prize which can be a couple of thousand dollars and maybe a boat depending on the year. To enter a fish in the junior category you have to be younger than fifteen, so I am no longer allowed to real anything in. My job now is only to set up the rod after someone else has used it. After doing both catching the fish and helping set up, it has made me realize that the fun and memories I thought were from catching fish are actually from spending time with my