By Ted Schredd

I don’t know how I thought of this one – I just did. If you have an indoor hockey rink close to your house you have an unlimited supply of snow. For those of you who don’t know, the keepers of the hockey ice scrape the ice every couple of hours. After the scraping they take the scrapings (aka snow) and put it outside the arena.

Then you take your cooler and fill it up as many times as you want. When it’s an unbearably hot day you will make a lot of friends with a cooler full of snow. The first time I did this it was at Okanogan Lake in British Columbia, Canada. The lake is nestled in the middle of the desert and the thermometer was knocking on 100 degrees F. Once one snowball came out I had a group of ten to fifteen people waiting for more. We split into teams, split up the snow and had a full on snowball fight on one of the hottest days of the year.

Life doesn’t get much more fun than that.

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