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Sleds, snow, and smiles

A family affair. From left to right.Emily Bulmer ‘20, Tyler Bulmer ‘14, Katie Bulmer ‘16

Right: Sierra Dunbar ‘12, is helped up by Elliot Roberts ‘12, after being pushed into the snow while sledding. Inset: Sara Klienkopf ‘10, shovels her driveway with her mom Anne on Wednesday morning in an attempt to keep up with the snowfall.Clockwise from top left below: Kyle McDaniel ‘09, makes hot chocolate to warm up after playing in the snow.Connor Hesen ‘11, goes skiing in his back yard on a rail set up that he built. Hesen also built a jump and rode the rail behind the baseball field.Austin Shoemake ‘11, films as Hesen and others do tricks on the rails. Hesen was trying to land a 270 off the rail for the camera. All photos by Alex Rowe

Late Tuesday night, snow began to fall over the Front Range. Over the next 48 hours, 23 inches of snow fell, causing three days of school cancellation.

Students used their unexpected time off to work, relax, and play. The three days off changed the schedule for the week, and, potentially, for the year.Work

Sara Kleinkopf ‘10, used the snow days to finish work that had been worrying her.

“I worked on my applica-tion essays to apply to college,” she said. “Having three extra days to do it made me much less stressed.”

It was difficult for Kleinkopf to find the will power to work.

“The rest of my friends were out play-ing in the snow,” she said, “but I sent in three applications so it was worth it.’Relax

The cold weather kept Nate Schne-beck ‘10, and Wes Cashion ‘10, indoors. They sat on the couch for hours watching movies and playing video games.

“We had a Harry Potter marathon where we watched all of the movies back to back,” Schnebeck said.

He has always had a passion for Harry Potter. Before moving to Colorado he was on the front page of his local newspa-

per, dressed as Ron Weasley.A movie marathon wasn’t enough to

entertain Schnebeck. “I also played Poke-mon Blue,” he said. “I started as Squirtle and beat the game before having to come back to school.”Play

“Sydney King and I spent 96 straight hours together,” April

Oberkirsch ‘12, said.“We did everything,” King said.

“We played ‘Left for Dead,’ we colored, we baked, and we

hung out with friends.”King and Oberkirsch

went sledding with friends every day. Friend Sierra Dunbar ‘12, ran into a tree

while sledding.“I guess I’m just not very good at

steering,” Dunbar said.Schedule change?

The school calendar has a maximum of three snow days built into it, and after that more days may have to be added.

“There is always the possibility of hav-ing to add days on Saturdays, a vacation day, or after the end of the school year,” said Director of Schools Dan McMini-mee. “I have never seen there be more than three snow days, and if it happened we would work through the problem with the whole district.”

Alex Rowe

What did you do?

Right: Sydney King ‘12, and April Oberkirsch ‘12, sled down the hill off of Monarch together.

Audra Rinerson ‘12, and David Baysinger ‘12, try to stand up on a sled.

Snow D ze

Two days of snowfall and 23 inches put Rock Canyon in a