Paintball Biathlon 2010

by Sophie Hodges, a Bill Koch League participant.

Today a lot of people from Frost Mountain went to the Paintball Biathlon at Mountain Top, Vermont. It was a freezing cold day, and unfortunately, I was only wearing one pair of socks. It was a skate race, and super duper fast. You would start out with a small loop and come into the shooting range, shoot five targets about the size of dinner plates, and ski off down the hill. At the bottom of the hill, you would either finish, or go off for another loop. Camille and Malia go first, and they both have really good races, really, I'm not just saying that to be nice. Sam, Nick, Tom, Rowan, Oliver, Harlow and Morgan all had good races too. I didn't get to see a lot of them, it was too cold to stay outside for a really long time. But some how, my dad, Barney Hodges stayed outside the entire day, and has told me personally that he did not get cold once the entire time. The way the race worked was you would start in 15 second intervals and race against the clock. Then you would go up a hill and ski down a flat into the range. They had eight stations and would tell you to go to one of them. You would have to take a bunch of deep breaths after skiing hard up the hill, but luckily Mike Hussey and Barney Hodges had taught us how to do it right the day before. Then you line up the top of the gun to the bottom of the target and pull the trigger. Do that five more times, then put on your poles and V-2 off down the hill. At the bottom, you either head right under the blow up finish line or go off for another lap around the course. It was a really fun race!