I'm supremely disappointed that I've not been able to take advantage of this 4-6" of snow to do some Calvin & Hobbes snow art. I even dug out the Wii sports accessories to do some scaled down selections from comic #6 on
this page. Also had plans to do the ice cream scoop in the back one. But we got out there this morning and there's a solid
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Usually we used toboggans of a sort. I never had a runner sled. We also often used inner tubes. In a good year, we could get a tractor inner tube. In later years, after my father bought a surfboard, we used that to "surf" down the hillside.
The best year I can recall had 4 foot snow drifts. At the bottom of the hill we used for sledding, the level of the snow dropped about three or four feet suddenly. Awesome ride, but a serious pain to wade through that much snow to the top of the hill.
For reference, when I was growing up I always had snow boots and ski pants in the winter. Here in middle tennessee, I can't see buying that stuff unless we take up skiing... Oh, there are also some ski lodges up in the mountains.
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