Descriptive Essay On Sledding

Sledding Once a year winter comes and goes. It’s a time for shorter days and frigid nights. The weekend is here, one wakes in the morning and peers out the window and sees just enough glistening white snow to cover the yard and the street ahead. Now it is known that winter has arrived; now it’s time to go sledding. When one takes their first step out of the car in their warm puffy winter coat and toasty mittens, the thrill of sledding is already upon them. As soon as they reach the top of the steep hill they take a deep breath, feeling the icy sharp air running down their throat, they look down the hill and see the packed and fluffy freshly fallen snow. They lay the sled down and feel the spine chilling wind run across their
This is the same thrill they get when they open their perfectly wrapped presents on Christmas morning. They get back up from the fall and continue to run back up the steep hill with their snow filled boots and numb toes. The higher up the hill they climb the faster the sled goes and the better the thrill. As the child builds up speed, they continue to clench the side of the sled with their excitement growing. Each time the child goes down the hill its worth it to keep climbing back up and go down again because it gives them the thrill and excitement similar to that of the feelings they get on Christmas day. When a child opens their mouth wide and screams they can feel the cool snowflakes melting in their mouth. The thrill of going over a bump and sledding down a hill brings the child closer to the thought of Christmas. The child now understands that because Christmas is here, it is wintertime. When the weather is hypothermic enough for a child or adult to begin to sled, it is nature’s indication that winter has begun. Sledding has always been a symbol of winter. Even with the technological advances sledding will always be symbolic of winter. From classic traditions of sitting in front of a roaring fire, to children and adults alike running out to feel the cold wind outside, turning their cheeks bright pink, sledding will always be a holiday event that is participated