Sledding at Soldier Hollow

So, I am way behind on updating this blog. I'll do my best to get a few posts up in the next couple of days.

In mid-January, my company took all the employees tubing at Soldier Hollow. We did this as a management team last January, and it was a blast. I was so excited to hear that we were going to go again, but this time with our families. We have never taken B2 tubing before, probably because I'm too much of a wuss when it comes to being cold and being in the snow (I don't like either situation). So, since this was our first time, B2 and I had to go out and get snow clothes. 

B2 absolutely LOVED tubing!! We were pleasantly surprised. Since our company had the hill reserved before Soldier Hollow's normal hours, we were up there pretty early, which meant a.) B2 was cranky in the morning, b.) I was cranky in the morning, c.) it was FREAKING COLD, and d.) the lanes were super slick. Our first run of the day, we went down the hill so fast that we not only crashed through one barrier at the end of the run, but two! We even broke a few of the PVC pipes that were used to hold the barrier up. After our crash, the employees at the top had to remind every single rider not to crash into the barriers--yep, every single rider the entire time we were there. Oops... :) After it started warming up and more riders were going down, the lanes slowed down a bit, so we didn't have another collision...with a barrier, at least. But, even with our collision, we asked B2 if he wanted to go down the hill again, to which he adamantly exclaimed, "Yes, let's do that again!" That became the typical response--as soon as our run ended, B2 was begging us to go again. One great part about Soldier Hollow is that they have a rope that tows you up the mountain, so you don't have to lug your tubes up the hill over and over again. So, we had the energy to go down a bunch of times.  We were tubing for two hours (with a brief break about halfway through for some hot chocolate, a ski mask for me, and snow gloves for B2), and we could have gone for probably another hour had we not gotten kicked off the slope.