There are a lot of things that I like about the winter season. First and foremost, as I am sure a lot of others would say, is snowboarding. There are very few things in the world that can make me feel so great and hurt me. Given, I haven’t been too seriously hurt yet, but falling rarely doesn’t hurt at all, especially when you’re going fast. The quiet and feeling of solitude is nice also, and the snow doesn’t do that in just the mountains; the mountains are often times quiet like that. I like when there is enough snow and it is soft enough that it absorbs nearly all the sound. Around here you have to get away from any major road, but in the smaller towns, where the speed limit is lower and there isn’t much traffic or other things making loud noises, the soft dull silence is bliss.
Winter also brings the cold weather and stabbing winds. When it is warm out you generally don’t feel like lying on the couch under blankets and watching a movie or reading a book, but the winter affords that opportunity.
Christmas and Thanksgiving are also in the season, and although it doesn’t happen much anymore, I like getting together with family.
However, I am not a fan of having to fly during the winter, and I don’t mean commercial airlines. When its 20 degrees or less out and I have to stand under the rotor wash of a helicopter, with winds that probably reach about 60 miles an hour, it just isn’t real comfortable. I can’t say that I care for the small chips of ice that pelt my already sensitive cold skin when I have to be near a hovering aircraft either. But, all in all, winter is a good season, and a trip south can get me away from the cold if I feel the need.
2 comments:
Right.Enough snow really absorbs all the noises and slows down everything.While it last,it gives me the illusion that everything can be quiet and clean.
I totally hear you. I love snowboarding. Noting is quite like being on a run all by yourself and all you can hear is the snow being carved under your snowboard. It's bliss.
PS... I totally agree with everything you said about Communision. I've been into many countries where either they are communist or have been. And life there isn't that great. I was once in the Museum of Communism in Prague. It was quite enlightening. Thanks for your comment...
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