<p>Sure did, at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. With few exceptions, students were not allowed to have cars on campus back then, so traying and hitchhiking to downtown Northfield were our main vehicles of conveyance.</p>
<p>We used to remark that the college should issue each freshman a tray when they matriculated.</p>
<p>Sure makes one wonder how much of the dining hall budget is directed to all the trays that disappeared over the years LOL</p>
<p>I have fond memories of traying down a hill in front of Crouse College at Syracuse University, where there was no lack of snow. I even recall an incident in which a campus security officer came to ask a group of us where we had gotten the trays, and one of the kids I was with very boldly telling him that his father owned a tray-making company!</p>
<p>Here is another Rutgers traying memory, actually Douglass College, on the hill at Passion Puddle. Somebody, maybe those aggies, put bales of straw at the bottom by the pond so no one ended up sliding in. The trays were from old Cooper.</p>
<p>Not only did we “tray” at University of Maryland… but I remember that once there was a giagantic snowball fight across Route 1 with dorm rats on one side and frats on the other. I did feel sorry for the cars that had to drive down the street during the episode.
So far my kids haven’t had enough snow on campus to make even a small snowball.</p>
<p>Biggest blizzard of my life - winter 1978 in Boston. Classes, and most of the city was shut down for a week. There was so much snow piled up we “trayed” from the second story windows of my dorm. OH what fond memories!!</p>
<p>We “trayed” at WSU, too, dragonmom!! BF lived in a house on B Street. The yard looked horrible in the spring (late, Late March). When my parents were at WSU in the 40s, there was a rope tow on the lawn below Todd Hall!</p>
<p>“Hookie-Bobbing” was holding onto the bumper of cars…</p>
<p>“Ice-sliding” on blocks of ice was also fun on the golf courses in the summer…</p>
<p>We hitchhiked to the mountain from the corner near our house to save the $1.60 ski bus fare…</p>
<p>(No one was ever really hurt and my records are sealed…)</p>
<p>Yes, of course!! In the “arb” at U Mich. Great fun!</p>
<p>We had our own sleds … didn’t need the trays! :)</p>
<p>D went traying a few weeks ago, when it snowed in SC. It was great to see the pictures she posted online. She has spent her whole life sledding & skiing, but she said she had “the best time ever” going with her college friends … most of them had little or no snow experience, and they were like little kids!!</p>
<p>We trayed at UGA – there’s a steep road alongside Brumby and Russell Halls, and we all took over the street and slid. We got ice more than snow, so it was wicked good. 
I believe this was 1981, but it was the only time we got enough of the good stuff to take over the roads. Cardboard also worked.</p>
<p>Now I feel like I should send a donation to Food Services for abusing trays…</p>
<p>Ah, mafool–the ARB!!! I lived in Oxford Housing for two years, so the Arb was right next to us. I actually didn’t tray there, because we didn’t use trays, but the house I lived in had a few toboggans! We’d wax those babies up and go down those long, long tree filled hills in the ARb; it’s a wonder we didn’t kill ourselves. Always at night, of course, then come back to drink hot chocolate at two in the morning.</p>
<p>mafool and garland,</p>
<p>The Arb was best, but there was also a hill behind the Music Shool that fronted on Fuller Road that was great too!</p>
<p>The Bursley cafeterias would post “No Traying” signs following a snow fall.</p>
<p>Yeah, right!</p>
<p>Every U of M student should be required to walk the Arb from top (Geddes Road) to bottom (Huron River), every season. It is always different. What a resource for the school and the students.</p>
<p>I don’t remember traying at Harvard, but I do remember that during the great blizzard of '78 someone built a ski jump out of the steps of Widener Library. We built a tunnel at Dunster House and an enormous snow dragon.</p>
<p>UMDad, remember the peonies in the spring??</p>
<p>mafool,</p>
<p>I have to admit, I wasn’t much of a horticulturalist during my college years. I can tell you the best places in the Arb to stay out of the way and peacefully drink copious amounts of beer.</p>
<p>Were you there during the Thanksgiving blizzard of 1974? It took us 4 hours Sunday afternoon to drive back to Ann Arbor from the eastside of Detroit.</p>
<p>Yes I was! It was the first time I ever saw a person on cross-country skis: skiing down the middle of Liberty Street.</p>
<p>Only the lucky ones had trays. The rest of us just ran and slid down on our bottoms. You’re so frozen that it doesn’t hurt at the time…but the next morning you awake to the most incredible bruises!</p>
<p>My college actually was smart, or so they thought…when snow was forecasted they would replace the trays with the carry out carboard type…then they started doing it the day before, b/c we took them the day before (knowing on snow day we would have cardboard)…eventually they gave up because everybody swiped the trays back in NOV and waited for the snow to come…it was always funny to see everyone start bringing back trays in April :D</p>
<p>Nothing better than traying on Libe Slope at Cornell – steep, and long, and most freshman dorms right at the bottom (at least many moons ago).</p>
<p>Never saw snow before in my life but ran with the rest of the full-time grad students to go traying in the first major snow storm. Snow angels were in order right after traying. Ahh, to be young again and not mind a bruise or two in the morning.</p>