<p>I was visiting my sister - then a freshman - at Harvard - when the Great Blizzard of '78 hit. It was amazing. Something like 22 inches in 24 hours?</p>
<p>I think it was more than that - and it lasted for 33 hours. I know that when they shoveled out our entryway the snow was above my waist.</p>
<p>I was on the phone with DS last night when suddenly he said, “Oh! Wow! Look at that - someone has a mattress outside and they’re sledding on it.” A minute later he said, “Well, I gotta go. I wanna go check out the mattress sledding. See ya.” So he’s not traying… is he mattressing? (Wow, mattressing sounds a lot sexier than it is!)</p>
<p>Sigh… college was fun.</p>
<p>DH used to tray at Bucknell back in the day. (The hill behind Roberts was the best place on campus.) Junior year he took <em>my</em> toboggan to school and kept it in his dorm room. (I went to a city school so I wasn’t using it.) It was tradition that after those math and physics and chem exams to get chemically altered and go whooping down the hill at the local golf course–trying to shove the last man off the the toboggan as it went and still manage to maneuver the sled over the footbridge at the bottom of the hill. If you missed the bridge it was 8 foot drop into the creek.</p>
<p>His tobogganing companions from college still fondly talk about it to this day. But it’s wonder any of them lived to tell the tale…</p>
<p>What? No CCers have posted here about traying down the hill in front of the chapel at Colby? Great stuff. Of course traying got to be old hat, so streaking through the quad at midnight in a snowstorm took over as the newest winter entertainment during my 4 years in Waterville. (What can I say – we were way up in the boonies of Maine.)</p>
<p>I absolutely remember going traying while at Brown – we once went on a hill at Moses Brown school. </p>
<p>My daughter went traying last semester, also at Brown, so the family tradition continues.</p>
<p>At Wellesley each dorm had a toboggan. But we also trayed, of course. Severance Hill was the preferred location.</p>
<p>Now they can legally take trays from the Res Halls food service places, there’s even a picture of traying in the dorm preview literature. Back in my day you had to smuggle the trays, and someone working at the snack bar always had the job of collecting trays from the nearby hill. I regret not buying a sew on patch with “UW Ski Team- Tray Bascom Hill” on it- finances were very tight in the early (all of) the '70’s. There is a saying Wisconsin is not one hill, but many- and this year there is record snow already…</p>
<p>You bet! At Yale, we used to walk over to the Divinity School, and tray away down its glorious “slopes”…
My senior year single had a walk-in closet. That was the official Tray Depot.</p>