Snowskates
Larsson making it past the tree
I have finally been introduced to a fantastic and hilarious winter snow sport: Snowskating. My roommate has been telling me about this since freshman year. He finally was able to bring to school this year the essential piece of equipment: the snowskate.
The snowskate is essentially a skateboard with a wax/plastic bottom that replaces the wheels. For anyone who has ever mounted a skateboard only to discovered that their body does not generally like to move with with it, but rather stay put as the board flies forward–snowskating is exactly like this but slippery. At the same time, snow is a whole lot more fun to fall on than concrete.
Our adventures began on a snowy Thursday night trying to distract ourselves from the looming hours of studying we all had for tests or labs the next day. Our first stop was a hill behind McGregor. This proved to be just about the right level of steepness to test things out, however, the bushes at the bottom of the hill proved to be a great source of fear for the rider and a great source of laughs for the onlookers. We then ventured over to El Pomar where we suddenly had a steeper hill, but now the bushes were replaced by metal railings. Luckily we were all well aware of the railings and nobody had to end up in Boettcher Health Center.
We did catch a few looks from people leaving El Pomar and even had one friend join in for a bit. I had to leave early to start on the studies, but we all agreed we need to hit the fine slopes of Colorado College once the real snow starts falling here.
A final thought: It seems that all ice/snow sports were designed with humor in mind. Honestly, whoever thought that it’d be good to attach anything smooth or with an edge to our feet and slide on snow or ice must have loved watching people fall. Snowskating is just another one of those hilarious sports to list with sledding, snowball fights, and of course ice broomball (the best of them all–tennis shoes+ice=even coordinated people looking ridiculous!)
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