Ice

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This past Friday, the Mount Nittany resort, “Tussey moutain,” had their annual 5 dollar per ski pass day. This attracts a lot of people, most of which being either new or not good. When a ski resort is as packed as it was last Friday, the snow becomes like a sheet of ice because of all of the boards going over it. Ice is the skier and snowboarder’s worst enemy. It is even worse for beginners, which is what Tussey consisted of last Friday.

I went with my friend Addison who brought along a few of his friends who had never gone before. As we were waiting for them to get down, we began to notice that everyone who passed by a particular  spot by us fell. It just kept happening. Ten people, twenty, thirty, it was hilarious but also very dangerous. The first of our friends came down and fell like the rest of everyone else. We continued along to the bottom of the mountain leaving behind Addison’s other friend. When we arrived at the bottom, Addison noticed he had five missed calls from the friend we left behind. He called to find out that his friend slipped right off of the path and was ten feet below. We got on the ski lift and rode to where he fell to find him laying there. He said he wasn’t hurt, and that he just couldn’t climb up because the ice would make his slip back down. Ski patrol came and gave him a pole to climb up on. He wasn’t in the mental state to try to ride again, so he slid down the rest of the path on his butt. He is lucky that he wasn’t seriously injured.