News : Enjoying the snow on a little sledding hill

The parking lot at Harvest 365 Church looked like a giant had scooped out a bite of the earth and left a perfect little mountain behind. The guy responsible for plowing the parking lot pushed the snow into one almost-mountain-sized pile in one corner, and turned it into the best sledding hill anyone under five-feet-tall had ever seen.

It was exactly 33 degrees (cold enough that you needed a coat and warm enough that your fingers didn’t go numb in five seconds). The snow was just mushy enough on the lot to walk in, but the hill had that clean, squeaky sound when you place a sled on it.

The hill wasn’t big (about 3 seconds from top to bottom if you were lucky), but it was theirs. No lift lines, no rules, just the church’s empty lot turned into a winter playground for the afternoon.

Tonight we'll have ice and wind and it might make the little hill a bit more dangerous, but for now, it's perfect sledding weather. And for these kids, it was enough.