Hitting the Slopes

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Photo Courtesy of Kody Crowley

Outdoor winter activities lift people’s spirits A Lift?

Many Lakeview High School students and staff twice now,” Crowley said. “I enjoyed it there and ¨I’m glad I started snowboarding again this have been hitting the slopes this winter at local the challenges of snowboarding in the mountains year, it’s been really fun,” Bauserman said. ski resort Bittersweet. As a result of Covid, many versus Bittersweet. I really want to go to the Alps “Although I’m not big on terrain park/freestyle, of them have been going more often or at some point too.” I still enjoy downhill snowboarding at Bittersweet for the first time. and hope to go to Colorado at some point According to The Denver Post, in the future.” more people are skiing this year due to the pandemic and being unable to participate in most indoor activities. Senior Kody Crowley has been snowboarding for five years. He enjoys it a lot and hopes one day to try skiing “ I enjoyed the challenges of snowboarding in the mountains. Kody Crowley, senior Bauserman likes going out on the weekends and days she has off school with her friends. Some staff members have been out this season as well. Volleyball coach and teacher Heather Sawyer has been skiing since she was four years old, she has been to see what it’s like. to many places throughout her lifetime. ¨I love freestyle and going to the ¨I have skied all over the world. Canada, terrain park at Bittersweet. There’s not much Junior Hannah Bauserman started Ontario; Alberta and British Columbia; Europe - downhill that you can do in Michigan with the snowboarding when she was younger but Austria & France; England, of course in the USA, smaller hills and resorts.¨ Crowley said. stopped going for a few years. This year was the those being Colorado, Utah, and Michigan,” Crowley has been to a few places other than first time she hit the slopes in awhile. Bauserman Sawyer said. “I also have skied on two glaciers, Michigan, including Colorado. has tried both skiing and snowboarding but one in Austria and one in British Columbia.” ¨I have been to Copper Mountain in Colorado prefers snowboarding.

Grace McGlynn, Opinion Editor

Photo Courtesy of Hannah Bauserman Photo Courtesy of Heather Sawyer Photo Courtesy of Hannah Bauserman Left to Right: Bittersweet Ski Resort, in Otsego, is a popular local destination for skiers and snowboarders. Despite being a smaller venue, Bittersweet is less than an hour drive and has 20 runs ranging in difficulty. Coming from a line of athletes, Heather Sawyer skiied with her family in 2019 at Lake Louise, which has 160 runs.

After years of not snowboarding, junior Hannah Bauserman and her friend, Briana Porter, spent the day at Bittersweet practicing their skills.