St. Patrick’s Day was a splash Sunday at Snow Valley Ski Resort’s Pond Skim event.
About 40 participants made their way by snowboard and skis down a snowy hill and across 80 feet of water, decked out in the green of the day and just about any other costume imaginable.
Ethan Morrison, 16, of Midhurst went down in a bathing suit, plaid shirt and green hat.
That it’s March, it snowed during the Pond Skim and the water was frigid weren’t particular concerns.
“It was good, it was a lot of fun,” Morrison said, once in dry clothes and indoors. “It was not as cold as I thought it would be.”
It was his first time pond-skimming and he didn’t quite make it to the end of the waterway.
“I needed a little more speed to get to the other end (of the pond),” he said. “I got about half-way there.”
The Pond Skim event wrapped up the ski and snowboard season at Snow Valley Ski Resort in Minesing and gathered donations to Barrie’s Food Bank.
