My Yellowstone Blog

My Yellowstone Blog

This is a collection of stories and pictures of my favorite family adventures in and around Yellowstone National Park.

Sunday, January 27, 2013

Winter Activities!


On December 26th, we drove up to Mammoth to go ice skating behind the hotel. They freeze a pond every winter for their guests and they also let locals ice skate too. It is pretty small compared to Cutler Lake, but big enough to fit our family! :) After skating, we drove back down to the Mammoth school to go sledding. They have this one hill that is really steep and Bennett and I usually tend to go on that one. By the time we are done, we usually are spitting snow out of our mouths and I end up with icicle dreadlocks. :) Wiping out is fun but sometimes it hurts!

The warming hut is where they have skates of all different sizes (boys and girls) and outside they have classic music playing while you skate!




Skating on the pond.



Family on Ice!


Grammie and Poppie.




I found a really long icicle hanging off of the warming hut!


Sledding down the big hill! Trust me, it is a lot steeper than it looks!



My shoe and the mountains.


I made peppermint bark and it was so amazing!



Cross country skiing around the Mammoth terrace loop.







Bennett.


Poppie's first time cross country skiing!









Mammoth!


On December 29th, we went to the 4H sledding party in Jardine. There is a perfect sledding hill there and some people even brought snow mobiles! Mr. Long jumped off of a hill that we were sledding on with the snow mobile and almost crashed!



Emma, Libby, Dani and I went on an inner tube and if we were on a highway we would've gotten pulled over, that's how fast we were going!


Bennett and Bryson jumping off of the hill.


Mr. Long in mid-air!!



Libby, Emma and Bryson with runner sleds.


On New Year's Eve, we took Grammie and Poppie to Cutler Lake and they watched us ice skate. Our feet were pretty cold since the ice skates have a little over 0 insulation...








Skating!



Poppie.


Fiona was the goalie.


 Grammie was really cold!


The boys started a hockey game.....every time we go, we are the only ones there!!



Me and my skates!