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[AhosDatsyukian]

You'd think so, until you try to walk downhill in the snow.

I tend to prefer sledding downhill in the snow

 

[tarheelhockey]

I tend to prefer sledding downhill in the snow

Honestly the best way to handle aforementioned hills during fair weather was to ride a bike at Sonic the Hedgehog speed down the first hill and then pedal like a madman in hopes of using the momentum to get up the next one.

Never even occurred to me that the same thing might work on a sled.

 

[MinJaBen]

Honestly the best way to handle aforementioned hills during fair weather was to ride a bike at Sonic the Hedgehog speed down the first hill and then pedal like a madman in hopes of using the momentum to get up the next one.

Never even occurred to me that the same thing might work on a sled.

You have pedals on your sleds? Weird.

 

[skipnjump]

In college I literally had to walk to class in the snow uphill both ways. My dorm was at the top of a hill, and class was at the top of a different hill. It sucked.

Same here. My dorm was at the top of the hill and walking uphill in the snow after class was no fun!!!

 

[tarheelhockey]

You have pedals on your sleds? Weird.

How else is the rudder supposed to work?

 

[Finnish Jerk Train]

Appalachian grad here. Can confirm uphill both ways in the snow is a thing.

But up there, you never get a peaceful, gentle snow. There's always a stiff breeze in the winter, so the snow never falls straight down - it's always sideways. And when you're going uphill, the wind usually rushes downhill so the snow is always blowing in your eyes.

 

[Lempo]

How else is the rudder supposed to work?

 

[Joe McGrath]

I had hockey practice before school at 6AM, 30 minutes from my house in high school. I’m not entirely sure how I functioned during the winter those years.

 

[Sens1Canes2]

I had hockey practice before school at 6AM, 30 minutes from my house in high school. I’m not entirely sure how I functioned during the winter those years.

That’s intense. I never minded the Saturday at 6am games as a kid … because it was hockey. But hockey and then school? Rubbish.

 

[Unsustainable]

We are 90% moved into the new house. 300sqft bigger than the old house, but feels 1000sqft bigger to be honest.

So much happier out here in the woods.

 

[NotOpie]

I had to walk to school 3 miles through snowstorms uphill both ways.

Only 3 miles?

I grew up in rural VA and all schools also started and ended at the same time. 1st bell rang a 8:25 and last bell rang at 3:10. When I lived in Raleigh and then Chapel Hill, it was madness that the middle schoolers had to get up before the high schoolers and early as shit....so early I blocked the actual time out of my mind.

Also, closed on our rental house today. Am no longer a landlord after 13 years.

 

[HisIceness]

Speaking of schools, it appears Bart Simpson is behind this masterful trolling of the Henrico School board in Virginia

 

[raynman]

Just picked up my first pellet grill. Oh the possibilities

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

Where I went to college averages over 200 inches of snow per year (I think the record year was over 390) and the average temp in January is 15F. Yes, average. I never had a car and it was always a mile + walk to class with a lot of hills. Not to mention going to the grocery store and lugging bags of groceries.

App State is a cakewalk compared to that.

re: grade/high school, I think most of our busses were about 7:30-8 am growing up. I’ve always been an early riser so it didn’t matter

 

[Surrounded By Ahos]

Just picked up my first pellet grill. Oh the possibilities

This is the way

 

[DaveG]

Where I went to college averages over 200 inches of snow per year (I think the record year was over 390) and the average temp in January is 15F. Yes, average. I never had a car and it was always a mile + walk to class with a lot of hills. Not to mention going to the grocery store and lugging bags of groceries.

App State is a cakewalk compared to that.

re: grade/high school, I think most of our busses were about 7:30-8 am growing up. I’ve always been an early riser so it didn’t matter

RIT? Wait, you said hills, definitely not Rochester then.

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

RIT? Wait, you said hills, definitely not Rochester then.

No. Michigan Tech.

 

[DaveG]

No. Michigan Tech.

I almost forget that there's ski hills up that way sometimes, same lake effect crap though

 

[Unsustainable]

Just picked up my first pellet grill. Oh the possibilities

easy bake oven for adults

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

I almost forget that there's ski hills up that way sometimes, same lake effect crap though

Yes. Just colder as well.

 

[LostInaLostWorld]

No. Michigan Tech.

My nephew-in-law went there for Forestry. Beautiful country. Wouldn't want to live there.

 

[Bub]

Appalachian grad here. Can confirm uphill both ways in the snow is a thing.

But up there, you never get a peaceful, gentle snow. There's always a stiff breeze in the winter, so the snow never falls straight down - it's always sideways. And when you're going uphill, the wind usually rushes downhill so the snow is always blowing in your eyes.

First rule of snow in Maine: it's always blowing in your face.

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

My nephew-in-law went there for Forestry. Beautiful country. Wouldn't want to live there.

Brutal in the winter, spring sucks but awesome in the summer and fall.

The ice sculptures the students do each winter are remarkable though. Helped on one my freshman year and never again.

 

[To Be Determined]

No. Michigan Tech.

reading the initial post, i actually thought to myself 'sounds like michigan tech' - was not disappointed.

when i worked on campus at nc state back in the late 90s, older dude (i was like 20 at the time, i realize now he was probably not that old lol) that worked in s lab connected to my workplace was a michigan tech alum. we, being at a cutting edge institution in roughly 1998, went onto the internet and found pictures of some of the snow sculptures from the winter carnival. i'm pretty sure each picture he showed me contained more snow than if you had accumulated all the snow i had seen in my life.

so, boom boom, if your name is al and you used to work in a polymer extrusion lab, long time no see.

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

reading the initial post, i actually thought to myself 'sounds like michigan tech' - was not disappointed.

when i worked on campus at nc state back in the late 90s, older dude (i was like 20 at the time, i realize now he was probably not that old lol) that worked in s lab connected to my workplace was a michigan tech alum. we, being at a cutting edge institution in roughly 1998, went onto the internet and found pictures of some of the snow sculptures from the winter carnival. i'm pretty sure each picture he showed me contained more snow than if you had accumulated all the snow i had seen in my life.

so, boom boom, if your name is al and you used to work in a polymer extrusion lab, long time no see.

Ha ha. Not Al.