For some Bostonians, blizzard cleanup offers technique to depraved enjoyable snow day

The recent powder of snow turned the Soldiers and Sailors Monument on Boston Common into the last word launchpad for sledders Tuesday.

Matt Starr and Ben Sieger, college students at BC High, added snow to a leap mound they’d begun the evening earlier than.

Alana Parkes, who lives in Dorchester, was additionally sledding. Parkes, who’s 60, has lived in Boston for many of her life. She remembers the blizzards of each 2015 and 1978.

She recalled a childhood reminiscence of her mother and father utilizing a sled to haul groceries again dwelling from the shop.

“I am almost 61 years old. You’re never to old to go sledding,” Parkes mentioned.