Winter Sports
by Scarlet
Winter is the best time of the year to watch Christmas movies and sit by a warm and welcoming fire. It's also the time of year for sports like skiing and sledding also for hot chocolate and marshmallows.Here is a poem that I wrote for Christmas:
Christmas time is finally here
Hot chocolate and marshmallows for the cheer.
Reindeer flying through the sky
It's still the time of year for pie.
Santa's coming to our town
Thanks to him there's joy all around.
Mix the batter for the cookies
And place them out on the table.
Symphony(the little girl who ate the cookies before Santa came.
Winter Sports
by Beth
Winter is my favorite time of year. I love snow, cold, wood
burning fires, and snuggling up under a bunch of blankets, preferably fleece,
as you would all know from reading my take on fluffy things.
I live in
Vermont, which gives me a nice long winter to enjoy. We are up on a hill in the
foothills of the Green Mountains, so we get our fair share of snow on our five
acres.
There are
tons of winter sports going on in Vermont—downhill skiing, ice hockey, figure
skating, snowboarding, and ice fishing. But, the sport I gravitate to is
snowshoeing.
Snowshoeing
is really just a way to walk in the woods in the snow. The design of the shoes
helps you to float on top of the snow and you don’t sink down. It’s a little
like how boats float on water. By staying on top of the snow, you are able to
move forward more easily because you aren’t pushing all of the snow out of the
way.
The
toughest part about snowshoeing is breaking the initial trail in fresh snow. While
the shoes keep you up, you still sink more when the snow is fresh. I like to
bring my dogs Hazel and Woodrow, along to run in front of me to make breaking
the trail a little easier. They make a path and I snowshoe it smooth on top of
their paw prints.
My favorite
place to snowshoe is on frozen lakes or ponds. We used to live across the
street from a large pond and I would head out every chance I got to trek on the
snow-covered ice. Now, there is a place near me, Indian Brook Reserve, which is
my preferred frozen body of water on which to snowshoe.
As long as
there is a good 4-6 inches of snow on the ground, snowshoeing is an option.
It’s by far my favorite way to get a workout in the winter.
