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■Erin Castleberry, a senior speech communications major, was
skiing with her family during Christmas break and said she went
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mat e\; taj.; “i t W as pretty cold outside, and by the time we got to the top
ating the ofihe mountain, it was really snowing, so we just decided to go in.”
omakeafcgHCastleberry successfully made it down the mountain and went into
:he bestloca the lodge to use the restroom.
id ideallyatesB“I was washing my hands, and I reached up to move my hair out
A), referred 0 ^ le wa y ant ^ m y pigtail broke off in my hand,” she said. “I just kind
ritv wouie j^ 100 ^ it i n stride, but the lady next to me thought it was the most
ful thing she had ever seen. She couldn’t keep her mouth closed.”
Kristen Herlocker, a senior nutrition major, also knows the taste of
astrophe. While on a ski trip with friends, she ended up at the top of
■in and said she was not sure she could make it down safely.
[Herlocker took the chair lift up to the top of the mountain,
expecting to ski down with no major problems. On reaching the top,
■e arrived at a trail sign that pointed to the one way down — a dou
ble black — which is the hardest trail possible.
/WyrwHftjBHerlocker took her one way out, hoping it would not be too bad.
, ■“Ijust kept thinking, ‘If 1 just go slowly and stay in control, this
e te 'iU be too horrible,* ” she said.
snow that had collected at the bottom of it. It was
almost impossible to get out.”
During a trip last Christmas break with friends,
Elyse Ackley, a junior elementary education major, and
her group decided to go to the peak, a feat made possi
ble only by using the T-bar lift.
“The T-bar is so different than a chair lift,” Ackley said.
“It should be so easy to let it come around behind you and
just push you up the mountain as long as you hold on.”
Ackley and her companion on the lift began their jour
ney with those thoughts in mind.
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er of TKE.r-i 1 Herlocker’s final destination was the tree that stopped her
their or^'inmion completely.
ingham saiaB“It was awful, though I’m sure it looked hilarious,” she said. “I
late (heirf fan face first into the tree and ended up in two or three feet of
ke them loop
“We were laughing at all the people who were continual
ly falling off,” she said. “We really thought we had it made.”
Halfway up, Ackley began to lean slightly to her left.
To balance the T-bar, she leaned back over to the right,
crossing her skis accidentally over the skis of her friend.
The two girls tumbled down from the lift only to find that
Ackley’s jacket was still caught on it. While being dragged up
the mountain, her companion lost a ski and had to hike down to the
bottom of the lift.
Ackley finally detached herself from the lift and began to ski
down, but was stopped by the ski patrol.
“I couldn’t stop laughing while I was talking to him,” she said.
“I just kept replaying over and over in my mind what we must
have looked like, and it was so funny. The man I was talking to
didn’t see the humor in the situation though. He just wanted to
make sure I could get off the mountain without killing myself.”
Taylor Shepard, a junior biomedical science major, described the
ideal scene for a day of skiing.
“You want fresh powder from a snowfall the night before,” he
said, “but not clouds during the day. Perfect sunny weather and
runs that aren’t crowded with people are perfect.”
Shepard spent last Christmas break skiing with friends in
Colorado.
“The weather was absolutely perfect, and we went late enough
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during the break that there weren’t too many people there,” he said.
“It was great.”
Taylor Jackson, a junior English major, worked at Keystone over
the last Christmas break.
“I’m really glad I did it,” he said. “But this year I’m just going
up there with my friends for the week instead of to work for a
month. I just want to ride.”
Jackson chooses to snowboard instead of ski and said that
learning to snow board is an art.
“Riding is about learning to be the board,” he said. “It’s about
listening to the board and listening to the snow.”
Jackson agrees with Shepard on what makes for a good day in
the mountains.
“Good [powder] is like a good woman,” he said. “It can be cold
and in your face, but you’ll never leave it.”
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