John Snow

Facing My Kayaking Fears Smells of chips filled the air in our car as we drove to camp ,on the second hour, boredom fell upon me like it was some kind of disease. I really wanted to jump out of the car and go camping,so I opened the window , and BOOM,the fresh smell of spruce pine trees hit me and made me blink a couple times.It was amazing.We got to camp and met up with everyone.On the second day my cousins and I were sitting and playing some board games up in the forest, the scenery was…

December, 2015, my mother planned to take me with her on a business trip up to Fargo for of Winter Break. We had been driving up on the highway; talking, laughing, listening to music on the radio, all this as we saw the ground around us glisten in packed snow and ice. As I looked out the window the farther north of the state we traveled, the more I saw trees that had halves of themselves encased in ice, and had been bent due to the hard winds of winter. Power lines that had been snapped apart,…

It was a bright, white, snowy, cold day. The roads are covered with snow and the fields look like clouds with trees, the edges of the clouds are the snow filled ditches with the ice covered frozen bottoms. Dad had the day off of work and asked if I wanted to go snowmobiling with him. I obviously said yes because I’ve wanted to go all year. After we put on all of our snow pants, coat, gloves, and helmet he helped me get the snowmobiles out of the garage and start them. He was riding his 2012…

It was a warm winter day in March. As I was getting ready for jumping, my fears started to flood my head. What if I crashed? How bad could the crash be? I was slightly nervous to jump my first big hill. I knew I was ready. My coach knew I was ready. So why was there that nagging voice in my head telling me that something was going to go wrong. I had been training all season to qualify for Junior Nationals, but I didn’t make it. Jumping my first big hill was a way to finish the season off with a…

Abbey Tischbein Ms. Marton Language Arts 7-2 16 November 2017 My First Day Being A Dance Assistant. On January 4 2017, it was a cold slushy day with Some snow on the ground. It was like if you get a big whiff of winter that it kinda gets thrown at you. It was my very first day being a dance assistant I have been so excited to be a brand new dance assistant. The class I did was 4:30 pm to 5:30pm. My mom , sister, and I usually get there an hour and a…

When most people think of Vail, they think of just skiing. When I think of Vail, I think of the diverse people, the food, the snow, skiing, swimming, and so much fun with my family! I honestly love Vail, Colorado! It is one of my favorite places that I’ve been to, and Vail is special to me because we go there skiing every year. My aunt lives in Vail, and we visit her every year when we’re skiing. Since I know the town so well, it’s like a second home to me! One of my biggest memories I have of…

looks like a never ending abyss after falling through the treacherous paper thin ice covering the drop into the chasm were no light can penetrate. You were saved by knowing the terrain and weather patterns of Mount Everest, the immense amounts of snow, the wind, hidden chasms, ice everywhere, and etc. You made tools and clothes to keep you from falling off from ice and up to 175 mile per hour wind speeds (hurricane force speeds.) The effects on humans and animals are the high altitudes and lack…

One of Austria's hidden skiing gems Serfaus is set on a sunny plateau above the Tyrolean Inn Valley along with two sister villages: Fiss and Ladis. With the smell of dung, a pretty church, and wooden chalets the village is typically Tyrolean. Serfaus holds the distinction of being the only resort in Europe with an underground railway – a two-carriage train with four stops meant to reduce traffic and transport tired youngsters with several skis and poles. Serfaus-Fiss-Ladis is one of the top ski…

Isolated from civilization, hundreds of kilometers away from the closest city, surrounded by land and more land, is the location of Mountain Apolaia. Covered mostly, in freezing ice for most of the year, and the target of a weather capable of frightening even the bravest of men, skiers know it as the mountain with the toughest slopes on the planet. The slopes are divided in two sections, the slopes of submission and pride slopes. Although both extremely difficult, most men, with the least sense…

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…