Ever since I was two, skiing consumed most weekends during the winter. Since my grandmother bought a house in West Dover, VT nearly 50 years ago, it has been a family ritual to migrate to Vermont every weekend. The whole Steinberg clan - cousins, aunts, uncles, and grandparents - cram into a three bedroom - turned five - cabin in the woods. The cabin was only meant to house four, yet now houses 12. …show more content…
First, Joe got the keys to his dad’s F-150 , which was loaded with snow tires and a snow plow. Joe conglomerated the snow into one massive, 20 foot pile, far bigger than ever before. The in-run was as big as a two story house. Looking up to the in-run, the top of the pile glistened with the orange rays from the sun creeping under the mass of snow. After the in-run was finished, we took out the shovels and built another snow pile, which was a few inches taller than my five foot stature. The four of us spent nearly an hour sculpting the jump and grooming the in-run to perfection. Lastly, we built the landing by piling another mass of snow nearly 10 feet away from the jump. Before heading in for hot chocolate and dinner, we froze the jump so that it would harden overnight. We finished at 9 o’clock, so it was pitch black; I had no idea what the jump looked