By Tanisha Naik
A few weekends ago, Mr. Crowley took 13 students on the annual Lovett Ski Trip to Sugar Mountain in North Carolina.
Mr. Crowley, who has been skiing for 30 years and snowboarding for 20 years, has led the Lovett Ski Trip for a long time now. Lovett has not always gone to North Carolina. In previous years, they would go west and even once to West Virginia and ski at Snowshoe. However, due to logistics, Sugar Mountain is just an easier destination.
Obviously, planning a school trip is difficult. One of the biggest challenges Mr. Crowley faced this year was getting a core group of students to take the ski trip because there were a ton of cancellations.
Students left from Lovett on Friday and arrived in North Carolina in the evening where they checked into their hotel and got their Ski equipment. The next day they spent the whole day skiing, taking a break at the top of the mountain to each lunch. The day after that they skied for a bit more when it was finally time to head back to Lovett.
This is a perfect trip to accommodate all levels of skiers from advanced to even beginners. Luckily for this trip, Sugar Mountain had group lessons that skiers could participate in. This was a good way for both the beginners to learn how to ski and for more experienced skiers to get back on the slopes.
Junior Ava Boren wanted to go on a trip with her friends since she and her friends “couldn’t do spring break together, and thought it would be a fun way to spend a weekend,” she said. Junior Megan Frisch decided to go on this trip because her friends were also going and she has been skiing since she was 7, so “I was excited to get another chance to ski during the year,” Megan said.
Ava’s favorite part was skiing with friends, and “also getting ready together in the morning, hanging out in the hotel and talking at night,” she said.
Senior Sarah Turner took photos of Megan and her friends jumping over “this one bump, and she got some cool shots,” she said
Megan enjoyed those early morning hours when the mountain was empty. ”We would take the summit chairlift to the top and race down the hill on groomed runs while listening to good music,” she said.
Overall, both agreed that the trip was a perfect getaway filled with skiing, laughter, and memorable moments
“I loved the black diamond run from the top too,” Megan said.
