Farish

Every year our ward goes sledding at Farish, a recreation area owned by the Airforce Academy. Ike went up the night before for a camp out in the snow.

 

Noah, Jerry, Rodney, Ike. Jerry (the guy you want to be with in a crisis) organizes it each year.  

There was a foot of fresh snow which made for perfect sledding. The sledding runs were long and full of jumps. Daredevils and brave men sledded. We saw some spectacular sledding stunts. The best was when they loaded up a tube with 5 or more people. It was awesome to watch those bodies flying through the air.

The climb back up the hill is long and tiresome.

 

Of course there was a rocking horse on skis. Duh.

 

These are our fearless missionaries. They wore their name tags on their coats and you can see the white shirt and tie. They sledded and built a snowman investigator (already in white!) in their nice black dress pants. I promised I would email this picture to their moms. 

 

Ike goes into the jump.

Ike and Noah were busy sledding, ice fishing, playing ice hockey, having snowball fights, and Roland and I visited with friends. After a warm lunch of a large variety of soups, desserts, and scones (made by the Bishop) we headed off for a snowshoeing adventure.

Rosalia, Angie, Kelly, me, Kathy

I am lucky to be in a ward full of women who like to hike, snowshoe, bike, run, play hard. It seems they are always up for an adventure. Being the klutz that I am I was worried about falling, or possibly dying, on the 1 hour snowshoe adventure. But I survived and only fell twice and only stepped on other people 3 times. Snowshoeing is excellent exercise and so so pretty.