For me, winter entertainments are the ones that I like the most because only on winter you can see the beauty and elegance of white robes of snow. Usually during the winter season, I go to snowboarding with my close people that like to see the tremendous and wide spaces of mountains.
Sometimes there is such a blizzard when you are on top of the mount and you could not see a meter in front of you because the wind and snow hit in your face. But sometimes there are calm clear days when the snow sparkles in the sun as the tiny and precious stones.
But unfortunately, on 2016 winter season I didn't go to have fun on mountain slopes. Howsoever, I went to snowboarding on the summer season, which is totally a different feeling than on winter.
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Oregon Mt. Hood, Timberline resort,
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When I drove to the Mt. Hood, Timberline resort I felt very warm and it was really like summer time with amazing yellow flowers around. I was wearing a light t-shirt and my summer hike pants. I came to the lift to upper mountain and hoped in. On my way up, somewhere in the middle, I felt light breeze of winter. And I thought: "Oh, good that I took my hoody with me!" We came up and I jumped down and immediately felt how wet and slippery was the snow. Ok, that's gonna be a tough ride! I clicked my boot in and started riding down the hill. It suddenly became very bumpy and foggy. More than half of it was hard ice or rocks or sand. It was blue diamond run and the upper half of it I felt that it was so hard in the fog on the ice. After more than half of the summer-ice slope, the road became milder for me, as there was no fog and less rocks and stones. I fell down only twice and not so hard, but the first fall was very close to offroad without a chance to come back easy.
I liked it a lot, even though, I had tons of fun and my smile after that day lasted for months.
Wow you are quite brave. After the first run in those conditions, I don't think I would've kept going. I've been to Mt Hood for snowboarding only on winter. I did go at about the middle of spring once, but I didn't like seeing so much bare ground, slushy snow, and ice caps. So, I only did a couple runs and called it a day, I was there for less than one hour.
ReplyDeleteThat in-between terrain is unpredictable. Sounds like a good time though!
ReplyDeleteSnowboarding in the summer can be fun but watch out for the ice. It can hurt you when you fall. The best time to snowboarding is when it snows in the valley. This is when the snow is like powder and is dry. The snow is so cold you can't make a snowball out of it. Everything is powder and even if you fall it it like landing on a pillow. Lots of fun!
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