Neffs Canyon

So the now has finally come and I can go sleding again at my favorite spot.  Neff's Canyon is located near the base of Mt. Olympus and it leads to the top of Millcreek canyon.  Every Winter (all seasons for hiking) that i can remember, my family and I have gone up this canyon at least once a week to go sledding.  Sometimes we hike up this canyon for a couple hours before we start to sled down or just short 20-30 minute hikes.  The canyon is not too steep, but never flat enough that you will slow down.  You are able to go as fast as you dare when you go down the trail after hiking as far as you like, the only problem is avoiding the hikers coming up the canyon.  If you want to avoid the people, you will have to hike up a little more.  After about 20 minutes of hiking, most people turn around at a forking area.  If you just want to go a little further, head right.  Going right will take you about 5-10 more minutes before the sleding trail ends.  If youwant to go have a nice long walk full of solitude, go left and you can hike for hours until you reach millcreek.  I have never hiked all the way to millcreek, but I have gone really far up this trail.  This trail is where the best sleding in the world can be done.  Its just you and a narrow trail with mounds of snow off to either side that keep you going quickly down on your sled.  I just went down the canyon earlier today and it is just as good as it always has been.  I have made it a goal to reach the end of Neff's Canyon sometime this winter and sled down for about an hour straight when I am done.

Playing with TNT

I recently got a ton of TNT in the game Minecraft.  So I began to experiment with it and blow a few things up like trees, small hills and anything else.  Eventually i found a tunnel system inside of a mountain.  I dedcided that it would be a good idea to make trails of TNT in each of the branches of the tunnel system inside of this montain.  It was not long before i found that not only di the tunnel system go around the mountian, but it also went deep underground.  So I decided to link the massive TNT upper network to the lower one.  When I finally mapped out the tunnel system with TNT, i hadused about 500-700 units of TNT.  This iswhen i decided it was time to set the entire TNT network off with one big bang.  I Ignited one of the TNT and ran away as fast as the game would let me.  Eventhough i was running pretty fast, the TNT still caught up to me and i was killed.  I eventually came back to life and went over to see the damage that had been done.  The entire mountain was gone and there was a giant crater/cave where it had been.

Making Water slides in Minecraft

I recently discovered that it is possible to make a water slide in Minecraft.  If you make a boat in the game, you can ride on the water with it and it is extremely buoyant, even if you start in your boat at the bottom of a lake, it will float up at a very fast rate to the surface, at which point it jumps about 5 or 6 feet above the surface.  If you make a waterfall somewhere, boats will also shoot to the top of those as well.  Anywhere there is water, the boat will get to the top of it.
After having discovered this, i began construction of my water slide by putting water on hills and have the boat flow down with the rivers.  When i get too low, i make a waterfall that shoots me up and i can then continue downwards, following a river.  This process can be looped so the slide never ends.

Update on Minecraft

So i finished the enterprise last week and it looked awesome until the newer version of minecraft came out and we couldnt play the old one anymore. Appartently we had to create a new, untouched world to continue playing minecraft.  So now we cant get access into the old world which had the enterprise in it so i cannot post any screen shots of the massive ship.  Oh well, there are new things that come with the new patch that i can experiment with.  I doubt i will ever rebuild the enterprise due to the large amount of time it took to make it in the first place but I'l come up with something smaller to work on this coming wek if I have some time to kill.