By Lexi Roach, Reporter
Sophomore Savannah Miles, a ski and snowboard club member, learned to snowboard last year when she took a one-hour lesson at Granite Peak.
“The lesson was fun and very helpful.” Miles said.
Now Miles spends some weekends sliding down slopes. On Sunday, she joined more than 40 other ski and snowboard club members on a trip to Chestnut Mountain in Galena.
The club took a charter bus for the two and a half hour ride.
“We left at 6 a.m. and got back after 7 p.m.,” Brian Aversa, ski and snowboard club sponsor, said. “It was a very long day and everyone was very tired.”
Each trip has about 40 to 50 students, Aversa said, with one chaperone for every ten students. They can only take 50 people, so if the numbers go over, a waiting list is created.
The club is open to all, including those who don’t have any experience skiing or snowboarding. Students new to the sport go to a one-hour lesson at the ski school at each mountain they travel to.