Students respond to the lack of structure on Sundays in different ways. Some sleep until mid-afternoon. Some play Halo 2. Some will go on off-campus trips. Some will whine about boredom, but not those who initiate their own winter games.
With help from the Zamboni, the Maintenance Department and mother nature, snowborders and freestyle skiers have constructed a terrain park on Observatory Hill in front of Johnson House (the observatory is long gone).
These kids, of course, don't call it a terrain park. They speak a foreign language. This is a backyard jib jam.
You descend from the top of an artificial hill, gain speed, vault off a jump and slide sideways on a rail. The trick is to survive standing up, and continue down the rest of the hill. It's a co-ed event.
Whether or not you succeed, it is appropriate to announce, "That was awesome!" at the end.
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