Snowlifting Research Paper

It was a sunny 56 degree day here in Beaver Creek, Colorado and I was ready to make my snowboarding debut. I woke up with a spark of energy and I was ready to go up to the lift, but first I had to go and get my purple and black snowboard. After I had my snowboard in hand I walked outside. While I was making my way up to the lift, my stomach was flipping 100mph and I saw all of the kids struggling to get on the lift. I was praying to God that I would not fail while trying to get on the lift. My cousin and I had to wait in the longest line , and by the time it was our turn my feet ached from the snowboard boots. I saw the lifts fly past me; I knew I had to pull a miracle, so I pushed myself but it was not enough and then something whacked my back and I then knew that I had made it on the lift. …show more content…
As we were coming to the end of the cold ride the bar lifted up and I had to get into position for the landing, with one foot in and one out, I had managed to land a plane with no landing gear. My heart was racing as I buckled my second foot in the boot; I was then ready to go down the mountain for my first time. I started out with a green slope for beginners, which was packed with little ski I school kids, as I was trying to turn my board I ended up jumping the berm and landing into a tree. I was laying in the freezing cold snow trying to get up with my board even though my feet were begging me to stop I went on. My body was giving up but we were about 30 minutes from the bottom and I was so thirsty and my head was pounding, so my cousin said that we could take the shortcut down and that was straight down. By this time I was so tired that I just did not care so I just went down, as I started to proceed down my stomach started to drop down and I was flying past all of the skI school