The joy of skiing

”A pair of skis is the ultimate transportation to freedom.”

-Warren Miller

     Winter is coming, eventually. My favorite season is winter for a few reasons but the main reason is that means skiing season. Skiing is one of my passions, it’s just something about slicing through the snow fresh snow falling from the sky with your skis and for those who are willing to be able to fly through the air. Also being able to enjoy it all with my friends and family. For the past two years my family and I have rented skis and boots at a place called Zimmerman’s and parts of the deal there is if your 15 or under you get a a season pass to a ski mountain called Ragged Mountain for only 100 bucks and if you ski you know that’s a really good deal.  Almost every Saturday or Sunday when there’s enough snow on the ground we go up and ski. Me and my brother love to go down all the glades there are on the mountain and even sometimes going through spots that aren’t even trails. As were going down if we spot a good natural jump or drop that we can go off we’ll stop each other and find the best lane making it so we can get the most air off the jump. As you can probably tell I really like to ski, although I’ve never got to go skiing at my dream mountain and ski through untouched powder on the backside of Aspen Snowmass in Colorado getting to ski almost every weekend during the winter makes up for it. We all have passions in life and with those passions are dreams for the future but for know we have to take what we have for granted. 

The essence of community, the power of place and the value of stewardship

”I wish there was a way to know you’re in the good old days, before you’ve actually left them.”

-Andy Bernard

     Everyone has a place where they feel welcome, for me one of those places is Fenn.

     The essence of a community is an important part of anything, whether it’s a camp or a school it is what defines the place. A community that I’m a part of is Fenn, this year as a ninth grader I’m a leader and someone that the younger kids look up to. I’m also someone this year that has to help make sure that the community stays like what’s its been for years. A lot of time when someone’s talking about Fenn they’ll talk about the community or they say something like “the community as a whole” which just shows how much community matters in a place.