My Ski Vacation Essay

Submitted By angiemorris

Words: 458

Pages: 2

Open Document

My Ski Vacation

Thin air astounds me as I commerce the final day of skiing at Vail, Colorado. Five days of skiing glide by rather painlessly. I fall occasionally but an evening in the jacuzzi soothes my aches and pains. The final day of our trip was approaching and I prepare myself for the final run of this vacation. Fresh off the ski lift, I glide toward the tails on the face of the mountain. I realize I am alone and will be heading down the mountain solo. I carefully choose my last trail, it is the most narrow of the three. A blast of adrenaline charges through my body as I experience the first drop. The trail curves and my weight shift as I plow down through heaven. All was perfect for the first one hundred yards but an accident wasn’t far ahead. As I cling to the fresh powder and fell as though there is nowhere else I would rather be, I feel myself stumble and lose balance. Feeling out of control my body parts collide with nature. My right hand slams forcefully into a sheet of ice and an over whelming jolt of pain overcomes me. My wrist felt as though I had snapped it in half. My body continued to roll down what felt like a never ending mountain. The force of gravity had taken over and I was out of control. Finally, a bed of unforgiving pine trees stop me. Dazed, confused and in excruciating pain, I try to gather myself enough to remove my glove and examine my wrist and other aching body parts. All alone, I glance downhill and see some of my missing equipment. My

How Skiing Affected My Life

SKIING What would you say if your parents told you, “were going on a skiing vacation”? I would say cool because I love to ski. That is what this essay is going to be about, skiing! If you like sports, skiing is a good new thing to try, because it is really fun and easy.Skiing impacted my life by going fast down every slope, conquering my fear of heights, and finally doing it as a family. First Skiing impacted my life by being able to go as fast as you want down any slope. One time was when Ben…

Words 379 - Pages 2

College Essay 1

this time, for some reason, my sister and I were especially looking forward to it. We counted down the days until we would be speeding down the slopes, and finally the day came. The skiing was absolutely fantastic, but the next day something horrible happened. The previous day, I had a pretty hard fall, but I got up and everything seemed fine. I was wrong. The next day, when I woke up I had trouble breathing, but my parents both said I was fine, so I continued to ski. In the middle of the day, I…

Words 557 - Pages 3

My Journey to Florida Essay

Ashley Baker John Steinbrink ENC 1101-51492 January 28, 2014 My Journey to Florida My many family vacations to the beach always left me in wonder as to what it would be like to actually live near one. Little did I know that one day I would finally find out. For the past couple of months my best friend, Marie, and I had been discussing the idea of having me moving down to Florida with her. It was not until the Christmas after my high school graduation that Marie, her aunt Tina, and her uncle…

Words 1207 - Pages 5

Test Paper

Human Resource Management Report on Evaluating Non-traditional Incentive System Case study of Howe 2 Ski Sores Submitted By Mr. Sardar Ali MBA Section-D Submitted to Lecturer: Mr. Baber Jamil Institute of Management Sciences Phase 7 Hayatabad Pehsawar, Pakistan Evaluating Non-Traditional Incentive Systems Case Study: Howe 2 Ski Stores Introduction: In this case study, the main focus of our interest is to evaluate the non traditional incentive system. But before going into the…

Words 1771 - Pages 8

Personal Narrative: Key West, Key Largo, And Disney World

It was spring of 2014 and my family and I were off to Florida, we went to Key West, Key Largo, and Disney World all in nine days. Our first order of business was to get to Florida, drive down to Key West visa Orlando. It was nice seeing family down in the keys as well. Then getting to Jet Ski in Key West. Then after an hour drive to Key Largo we went scuba diving. After three days of paradise, the excitement didn’t stop, we got to go to Disney World and get to go to all four parks. In Disney world…

Words 792 - Pages 4

Essay about Ski Trip Pack List

Ski Trip Pack List I wanted to create you a cheat sheets for easy packing for your ski trip. Note that I only recommend one ski outer layer, but several base- and mid-layers, but if you only ski a few times a year, less amount base-layers is OK - especially if you can wash them during your trip. I actually usually bring two ski jackets and extra ski pants too, because, well... I don't want to dress in the same clothes every day! But there is no need to buy more than one set - good quality ski wear…

Words 2216 - Pages 9

Essay on Travelogue Mexico

Derrick Wheeler Carrie Frasure English 3 18 September 2012 Recently my father and I went on a vacation to Acapulco, Mexico. It was only for a week but if felt like a month with so much to do. The first day there, we got settled into the hotel and hung out at the beach for a bit. We also went to Wal-Mart and tried to get some food. It was confusing because everything was in Spanish and the prices were in pesos instead of dollars. We managed to get some mayonnaise, bread, and (we think) ham…

Words 734 - Pages 3

Essay on Nutrition and Eating Habits

Personal Essay Hello, my name is Tyler Bryce Baker-Williams. I am 15 years old and I attend Tamalpais High School. I am currently living in Tiburon CA. However, I was born in Connecticut and moved to San Francisco shortly after being born. I lived in San Francisco for 1 year until moving to my current home at the age of 2. I have a younger sister in 8th grade named Kylie. I have 3 pets, a leopard gecko, a beta fish and a dog. I am a competitive tennis player and in the winter I ski with friends and family…

Words 556 - Pages 3

Pharmacist Career Research Paper

even thought of them as bezerk, but now that is completely different because pharmacists are everywhere and are almost as popular as a doctor. (“Chegg.com”) Since I am graduating next year I started to genuinely look into what I wanted to do with my life after Keystone Jr.-Sr. High School. When I was really young I wanted to go play professional sports. However, as I got older, I realized tha probably was not a realistic goal. One thing for sure, I always knew that I wanted to go to college…

Words 1373 - Pages 6

A Separate Peace By John Knowles

Gene, struggles with the thought that he is responsible for Finny’s accident. Countless times he find himself trying to admit to what he did or figure out exactly what happened. He attempted to tell Finny what happened while he was visiting him over vacation when he says he “was thinking about it… about [him] because” “ [he] caused it.” (69). Right after admitting to this Finny shoots him down and tells him that he fell, that it wasn’t his fault. Even though Finny insists that Gene didn’t hurt him,…

Words 796 - Pages 4