Sledding: Jolly Good FunAndando en trineo: Montones de diversión
By: Keith
We went sledding yesterday. I remember the first time I took the boys sledding, when we lived in Minnesota. Alan was just one year old and Neil was two. I had to ride with both of them at the same time because they were too small to hang on. We’ve been fortunate to live in places where there is a lot of snow. Sledding is one of those activities that everybody should do once in a while. We really got into in when we moved to Wisconsin, and there was a steep and dangerous hill (steep and dangerous is the best kind) next to our house. There is nothing quite like a day out in the snow and an evening indoors next to a fire with some hot chocolate. Winter would be a little dull without it.
One thing I noticed yesterday, on the hill, was the variety of sleds. The hill is right next to the University of Colorado student housing so there were a few college kids riding lunch trays (not very successfully). I saw that, for the conditions yesterday (20 degrees and six inches of fluffy snow), the foam sleds, like ours, worked the best. There was one kid riding a sled with 4 short steerable skis, and I was surprised to see he was able to make it to the bottom, barely. The plastic saucer sleds worked pretty well too. The only ones that really didn’t work well at all were the plastic boat style sleds. I think because the snow wasn’t very deep and the incline of the hill wasn’t great enough.
Well, I took a video of a couple of our runs. Nothing spectacular but still fun.
Ayer fuimos a andar en trineo. Recuerdo la primera vez que anduvimos en trineo fue cuando vivíamos en Minnesota. Alan apenas tenía un año de edad y Neil tenía dos. Yo tenía que llevarlos a los dos al mismo tiempo porque estaban muy chiquitos para poder agarrase solos. Hemos sido afortunados al vivir en lugares donde hay mucha nieve. El andar en trineo es una de esas actividades que cada quien debería hacer de vez en cuando. Nosotros verdaderamente nos picamos andando en trineo cuando vivimos en Wisconsin y tuvimos junto a la casa una colina muy inclinada y peligrosa (inclinadas y peligrosas son las mejores). No hay nada como un día afuera en la nieve y una tarde en casa junto al fuego tomando chocolate caliente. El invierno sería un poco opaco sin estas experiencias.
Una de las cosas que noté ayer en la colina fue la variedad de trineos. La colina a la que fuimos está junto a los departamentos universitarios de la Universidad de Colorado así que había varios estudiantes tratando de bajar la colina en las charolas de la cafetería (pero sin mucho éxito). Yo vi, que con las condiciones de ayer (20 grados Fahrenheit y 6 pulgadas (15.24 cm) de nieve), los trineos de gomaespuma, como los nuestros, funcionaban mucho mejor. Había un niño utilizando un trineo con 4 esquís que podía manejar, y me sorprendió que haya podido hacerla hasta el fondo de la colina, bueno casi. Los platillos de plástico también funcionaban muy bien. Los únicos que no funcionaban bien eran los trineos de bote de plástico. Yo creo que porque la nieve no era muy profunda y la inclinación de la colina no era mucha.
Bueno, tomamos un video de unas cuantas de nuestras bajadas. Nada espectacular, pero aún muy divertido.
What you guys need are a couple of flexible flyers. Old fashioned runners that you wax down a little and you are indeed flying. You steer the flyer with your feet and you can wind around, skid, whatever. But mostly, you just FLY! We have two of them parked in our garage here in SC… yeah, SC. Every year we have exactly one decent snow and my kids will go to the steepest hill they can find and let me tell you… the speed is a little breath taking.
Beth, thanks for the comment! That sounds like fun. The hill we went to yesterday was not quite as steep as I like, but it worked out pretty well.
Going down looks like a blast but coming up… not so much! You made it in under 15 seconds! Neil is a good camera man.
I needed the exercise running back up
We finally got a chance to sled with out son yesterday even though there is only a very thin layer of snow. Lot’s of fun.
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Looks like fun, although I have to admit I don’t envy the snow. I do realize that it’s beautiful and wondrous, but I prefer our sunshiny weather. The past few days it’s been in the 50s and 60s…and that suits me just fine for winter weather. Can you tell that I’m an Arizona Girl, through-and-through?
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Arizona! Yeah, you have to know that I’m going to invoke the image of Bella here from Twilight
I used to live in LA but since I moved to colder climbs I’ve grown to love it. BTW, I’m slightly annoyed that whenever anybody mentions Arizona or The Pacific Northwest, all I can think of is stupid Twilight! Arghhhh! can’t get it out of my head. Oh, well. LOL