PAS#1: Returning to School

As I was sitting at home in the coastal region of North Carolina it occurred to me... Winter breaks ends in two days, and I leave for State College tomorrow.  This epiphany was full of mixed emotions, I love State College and the whole area but I also liked the sixty-degrees and sunny weather in North Carolina.  I knew State College had lucked out so far with a very mild winter, but I have never experienced a northern winter, so it still felt cold to me.  I knew eventually State Colleges luck would run out.  

I stepped out of my plan onto the flight deck at Harrisburg International airport the temperature was bellow freezing... big shock for me.  For my flight back to PSU I had to fly into Harrisburg, which is about two hours south of PSU because all the flights into the State College airports were booked- due to a bunch of other last minutes traveler heading back to PSU from winter break.

To my surprise when I arrived at PSU Sunday night there was still no snow to be seen.  Living in the south my whole life we would once in a while have a snow flurry but nothing would ever stick.  That would change on Tuesday when I experienced my first snow storm.  It was a pretty magnificent sight especially when the snow stopped falling and everything was covered in a white layer of unmolested snow.

The arrival of winter and snow has allowed skiing mountains to start making snow, which is something I am looking forward to trying. It is amazing how snow changes the look of your environment the same way fall does when all the tree lose their leaves.  I am always left feeling like I am lost, it can be in some place I have been a thousand time and everything just looks and feels different.  It will be fun to explore Central Pennsylvania with this new feeling of winter and at some point snow that will stick around. 

My Passion blog is about the activities I enjoy off the campus of Penn State.  As freshman college students at PSU we are all in a bubble I call college life.  We have almost everything we need on campus or downtown.  I explore what there is to do beyond the college bubble.  To me the surrounding area hear at PSU is such a fun place to explore with all the natural beauty one could ask for.  Most of my blog post are about outdoor activities. With the nature of the outdoor this time of year I will be having a lot of cold weather adventures.