Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Buffalo New York Winiters: How To Best Enjoy The Wintertime In Buffalo.

By Jack Pineczak

Everyone seems to know Buffalo New York for its treacherous winters. But if you are a snow lover, there are all kinds of winter activities for you to do. For starters, nothing beats attending a Buffalo Sabres game in late December or early January. Or, feel the rush of more than seventy thousand psychos hollering for their beloved Bills football team while the snow is coming down. Start your NFL game day Sunday by tailgating in the parking lot prior to the game. Chow down on some of those spicy Buffalo wings. Guzzle some great Canadian beer or get some local lager from a microbrewery.

Snowmobiling is a very popular winter activity in Buffalo. There are plenty of snowmobile dealers to satisfy the demands of this excitement loving industry. People like to load up their sleds on trailers and take them into the really rural areas in New York State for some serious trail riding. They take week long vacations just to do some riding. Other people like to use the snowmobile as a means to go bar hopping. Heck, even the cops have snowmobiles now. They chase these bar hoppers around dishing out tickets for driving under the influence.

Skiing is also a pretty popular way to make the best of the Buffalo cold weather. There are a number of good slopes in the greater Western New York area. Professional skiers will tell you that the slopes around Buffalo are on the small side and not challenging enough. However, the people who live locally sure seem to enjoy them. I guess you could consider it a great place to learn how to ski without crashing at a hundred miles an hour. Even if you really don't want to ski, there is always the warm ski lodge full of single yuppies with a few dollars to kick around.

Snowboarding has become a very popular national sport in the United States. It has also become popular around Buffalo. In the early 1990s you would only have seen a few snowboarders here and there on the ski slopes. Now they are far more common. Just like skiing, the rolling hills south and east of Buffalo provide adequate quality slopes for beginning snowboarders to learn on.

The whitetail deer hunting in the rural areas surrounding Buffalo brings in some monster bucks. Actually this is a late fall sport more so than a winter one. The season ends in most areas before winter officially starts. The deer population has exploded over recent years to provide a hunting environment that is like shooting fish in a barrel. This sport is so popular that many area high schools are sparsely populated during the first week of the hunting season.

For children, the icy and snowy winters near Buffalo are a blast. There are countless ways for children to have fun outside in the cold. Some children will their fair share of the basic backyard sledding. Others will hunt down a giant snow mound to carve a tunnel into. There is the ever popular snowball fight with the other kids who live nearby. For active kids there is a new sport called pond hockey. Actually it is an old kids' playtime activity turned into a sport. There are lots of really nice parks where groups of people can go sledding for free. You really don't need to be all that creative to come up with a great way to enjoy the winter when you are in Buffalo. There really is a lot to do.

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