When you were young, what fun outside winter activity/activities did you like to do? I liked to sled.

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51. Oh, a bunch of stuff. Sledding, ice skating, snow ball fights at my cousin's...

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suburban house's yard. Once we even started to build an ice "fort". Snow was hard enough to make bricks! 2ft?

Sledding we had a park across the street with a mild to medium incline of a long hill. I had one of those saucer disks.

At one cousin's we had the medium hill on the HS grounds but we had to be careful not go down the second shorter hill that led to the street.
Brought my saucer. My cuz had the sled.

At our other cousin's we had the loooong golf course hill, and a real sled. One time my 1 cuz on the bottom, me in the middle, and our slender cuz on top of me. Got about all the way, and hit a dip hole. Off we fell, all ok.

I wasn't very good at one skating bc weak ankles, high arches - pronation. Super tight lacing, still would feel a bit wobbly.
I took Tai Chi decades later, and my ankles strengthened up!

ETA At the first cousin's there was a quite well off family pretty close to the highway into town. They had some acreage, and a pond.
So I think my first ice skating was on a real pond! I also skated a couple of times waaaay back in Central Park, and pretty far back in Bryant Park - west of the famous (central) lions library.

I never did a snow angel, wouldn't like getting cold and damp.