Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Sliding Down

More today from Jacques Cartier Park and Winterlude. These giant mounds of snow are sculpted to include slide runs, with water used as needed to make them more slippery. While I didn't go down this year, I have in the past, and it's a lot of fun on one of these tubes.


Finished with one slide area, I proceeded to the next one, approaching it first from the left side, where visitors were ascending the slope in the middle, and making use of slide lanes over on the left, at least on this day. This one takes particular advantage of the gradual slope in the park that leads down towards the river shoreline. I have more from the park to come.

44 comments:

  1. You should have joined them for a slide.

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  2. A lot of people having fun in the snow.

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  3. ...looks like fun, well perhaps fun when I was younger.

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  4. Wonderful slippery slopes for winter fun...Great idea...

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  5. It is no wonder that Canadians are good at the Winter Olympics.

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  6. How wonderful it looks like great fun:)

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  7. Great to see. But so cold, isn't it.

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  8. We have a small local hill which we used to take the kids to about once a winter on snow days. That's when we had them more, so we missed last year and so far this year. I have wanted to go down once in my 70s just to have done it, but it's a no go so far.

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  9. Hello, the slide looks like a fun time. I am sure the kiddies love it there, I would try it again if I was younger. Wishing you a happy day!

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  10. What a lot of snow you have! Imagine making hills and slides out of it! So you Canadians prove you have imaginations to match a fun spirit of play!

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  11. What fun! I wish I could join you all. :-)

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  12. As Canadians, we can't seem to get enough sliding in the snow! What fun!

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  13. @Joan: next year!

    @Linda: very cold!

    @Sami: it is fun.

    @Tom: kids love it.

    @Italiafinlandia: very amusing.

    @Gemma: that it is.

    @Rosemary: that we are.

    @Rosie: it is!

    @Aritha: very cold.

    @Francisco: thanks!

    @Anvilcloud: my last sledding was here.

    @Marie: it is!

    @Eileen: thanks!

    @Barbara: true!

    @DJan: it is fun.

    @Red: I agree.

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  14. I do have to admit that as a kid I did love sledding down hills like that. That was back when I could tolerate the cold.

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  15. I haven't been sliding for forever it seems. Ah, those were the days!

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  16. Take Me There Now - Also, Gr8 Playtime Shot

    Cheers

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  17. I think I would have more fun watching than sliding!

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  18. That is wonderful, must be great fun.
    Looking at it makes me go back to my childhood. Although our slide tubes were much lower and shorter ... ;-)

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  19. What fun. The one thing I liked about the cold. When the snow was deep enough we could sled down the one field. Tweeted.

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  20. Sliding was always fun when I was younger. Great shots, William.

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  21. Such a cool place! So much fun!

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  22. When I was a kid there was snow, too (no kidding!). It was fun!

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  23. @Sharon: I love the cold.

    @Jeanie: it's a lot of fun.

    @Padre: thank you!

    @Lois: it's fun either way.

    @RedPat: definitely!

    @Jan: I remember the hill I went sliding on as a kid. It's probably not that big in adulthood as it seemed as a kid.

    @Mari: thank you.

    @Bill: thanks!

    @Klara: that it is.

    @Iris: I love the snow.

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  24. i went back and re-read what u wrote ... was going to ask if you went for a ride. next year, maybe?

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  25. No, no, no, William. That is f####n cold! Come to Arizona and let me pour you a Margarita.

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  26. That's a fun way to put snow to work.

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  27. How wonderful that they maintain the slide area for winter fun ~ similar scenes of children sliding in the snow here but only what nature creates ~

    Happy Day to you,
    A ShutterBug Explores,
    aka (A Creative Harbor)

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  28. Now that would be a whole lot of fun!

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  29. It certainly looks like a lot of people were having fun in the snow.

    All the best Jan

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