Since moving to NC I have been quietly steeping with anticipation of our first real snow up here. Five days ago it actually happened! SNOW! WHAT? I was in my dorm room on a friday afternoon, totally done with class when I saw the first of the many snow flakes to fall. Awesome! I had heard rumors of anything between 6 to 12 inches by the weekend's end, so when the light flurry turned into a guster of ice i was not surprised just very excited!
I had to get in on this action!
I decided to wait an hour or so to let it build up a bit. It didn't take long; within the first 60 mins there was already half an inch to an inch of snow built up.
I texted four of my friends with plans to hike up to the top of Look Out mountain. None of them seemed to have received my message so i decided to make the ascent anyways (solo adventure can be a very good thing). However on my way up I bumped in to Rodrigo and Javie, then outside of Howerton we found Lisa and Will! All the people who i texted just happened to have the same idea and we all went out at the exact same time!
We stopped at Javie's house to pick up a sled, and then walked all the way to the top of Look Out. Slipping and sliding the whole way up i would randomly throw myself into the snow covered trees agitating a sudden downpour of winter magic! One at the top we sat in a circle and admired the powerful gusts and swirls of snow being blown around the white sky.
After appreciating the flurries me and Rodrigo decided to blaze a trail back to the trail head. Look Out being a very steep mountain it didn't take much effort as we allowed gravity to drag us downhill through piles of built up snow.
Once at the trail head we reassembled and prepared to arrange our selves on the sled. For those of you who don't know look out road it is very steep and very long (this is what we had hiked up to get to the trail and this is what we were going to ride all the way back into campus). All five of us squeezed on to the sled and shoved off! Best sled ride of my life! We had to work together to steer it down, all leaning in the same direction at the same time to avoid parked cars. We rode for for what seemed forever (probably 10 mins) but thats a long time for a sled ride. The road took us straight through the center of campus where we hopped off and walked into the caff for dinner! Epic.
Later that night me and brandon took our boards out and attempted some urban campus rides/tricks. Every ledge, hill and stair case turned into a challenge waiting to be conquered by us.
Then the next day we woke up at seven to head off to Wolf Laurel slopes for a sweet day of snowboarding.
I love the snow.
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