What else is there to say? The Fort is a place where everyone could be theirselves and are accepted as they are. We all come from different places all over the United States and yet, for one winter we are all in this one place surrounded by snow cover mountains and nothing else seems to matter. No one cares about age, race, background, or anything else except for if you ski or snowboard. While there are a few of us who never done either before getting here, that hasn't stopped anyone from attempting to at least get some strapped to our feet and hit the ropes...and then the mountain. These people are becoming a new type of family to me and I hope that the friendships that are still forming will continue to grow everyday and even continue after we all leave this place and enter the real world once again. Once the snow melts and the mountain closes in April we will be scattered across the United States again. Some of us returning to love ones in Texas, or Delaware, or Mississippi. Some of us will start new adventures in Alaska, or California, or even Europe. But, no matter where we go in April, we will all have memories of spending the winter here in Alta....rather it was our first winter here, or our fifth. It doesn't matter because at one time we were all in the exact same place at the same time. And that place is The Fort.
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