There is something special about experiencing Mother Nature up close and personal in the winter time. Sometimes this experience is a once in a lifetime opportunity or the beginning of a continuing adventure. ~“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt
Turning Winds Academic Institute is proud to sponsor such amazing activities. Teenage boys and girls need a good outlet in order to lead a healhty lifestyle!
On January 6, 2013 half a dozen young men from our boys' group embarked on a hiking, snow shoeing, skiing adventure which is likely to have left an imprint on their characters and serve as a terrific memory much longer than the tracks they left in the snow. Upon completing a 2 hour trek up the ungroomed Flat Iron Trail, which the boys completed wearing packs weighed down with their gear, the adventurers stopped for lunch at the top while taking in the magnificent view.
Once lunch was complete the group was ready for some downhill excitement! There was no shortage of ideal, white, powdery snow for the novices and experienced skiers and boarders alike to indulge in. No doubt the trip down the trail went much quicker than the vertical snow shoe hike to the summit, but each was exhilerating in its own way. Just as much as the appreciation of the landscape and the cooperation and comraderie of one another, more than anything, the sense of accomplishment and the gratitude for the experience was on the minds of our adventurerers at the end of the day.
