Sledding in the summer

The 16th Ave. house, where I lived until I was 10 or so, was up in the Avenues in Salt Lake. The Avenues is a residential area that crawls up the north foothills of Salt Lake valley, so most yards are quite hilly. Our front yard had a bit of a plateau—the sidewalk was at street level, then it sloped up sharply to the level of the house and had a flat front yard.

One summer, we discovered that the slope down to the sidewalk was steep enough to ride down in a sled in the middle of the summer. That was a hit with cousins and friends. We never wore out the grass, so Mom and Dad must have kept us from doing it too often. But still, who else in Utah gets to go sledding in their front yard in June?