While the "little girls" were skating, the older kids were working on improving their sliding hill. There are plenty of places to go sliding, but this particular hill has an added challenge, and they were fixing it up.
Melanie ran up to show me how it worked...you have to start up here, and if everything works just right
you come up against the snowpile which pushes you back on track (though you are going slow by then)
so you can pass on to the second part of the hill, making it the longest sliding run that has been found!
They put rocks in it to strenthen it. No, I did not encourage this.
It was analyzed after Melanie's failed attempt, as to what may be the cause of her lack of success. It was decided that the ramp needed to be a bit higher and she needed to lean a little more.
Try again!
We had another big dump of snow just when we'd given up hope of any more snow, so we had more sliding right after Matthew's birthday! The kids made a run on the east side of the driveway (but stopped before sliding over the road thankfully. :p ) It ran along what might be considered the ditch, using the plowed pile of snow to keep you from swinging onto the driveway when turning the corners. After a while it was hard to stay off the driveway in certain "weak places" along the run. But it was a fun slide, since you would bounce side to side and risked popping out...kinda like a marble slide.
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I love the imagination used to make a long tobogganing run. It sure brought back memories of tobogganing when we were kids. It was so much fun and we had some very unique long runs as well. ....and then the loooong walk back to the top. 😉 Hopefully next winter you will have more consistent snow.
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