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# The Snowdown
- URL: https://www.vjarmy.com/the-snowdown/
- Published: 2005-01-23T05:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-02-09T03:43:20.000Z
- Description: Photoblogger snowball fight.
- Author: Dan Dickinson
- Tags: Friends

[](http://www.flickr.com/photos/remydwd/3718505/?ref=vjarmy.com)

Today was the day we braved the cold and the mounds of snow in an attempt to find our way to Central Park for [Youngna’s](http://www.youngna.com/?ref=vjarmy.com) snowball fight.

[](http://www.flickr.com/photos/remydwd/3718428/?ref=vjarmy.com)

We inadvertently arrived fifteen minutes early, and this turned out to be a fairly bad move as the wind whips ridiculously fast across the Great Lawn at times. Luckily, [Jake](http://www.bluejake.com/?ref=vjarmy.com) made his presence known, and we all started plotting Youngna’s demise as the clock ticked past noon.

[](http://www.flickr.com/photos/remydwd/3718447/?ref=vjarmy.com)

She arrived at 12:15, and Jake promptly dumped her headfirst into the snow. The fight was slow and rather powdery – the snow hadn’t melted any, which lends to good packing snow, so I ended up flinging showers of snow at people. The slow pace often lending to standoffs and snow wrestling.

[](http://www.flickr.com/photos/remydwd/3718414/?ref=vjarmy.com)

We weren’t the only ones in the park having fun today – plenty of kids and their parents were out, sledding down Cedar Hill (despite the obviously wrong sign). There was a virtual parade of dogs – some romping, some walking normally, and some insisting on being carried by their owners. Almost all of them were in jackets, shirts, and boots. Très cute.

[](http://www.flickr.com/photos/remydwd/3718375/?ref=vjarmy.com)

I’m grateful to not only have had a snowball fight on the Great Lawn with a number of photobloggers, but to have seen yet again how beautiful Central Park can be, even in the worst of conditions.

Photos from the rest of the snowballers: [Jesse](http://pith.org/photo/view/20050123-snow?ref=vjarmy.com), [Karen](http://pith.org/photo/view/20050123-snowbykaren?ref=vjarmy.com), Youngna [on Flickr](http://flickr.com/photos/youngna/sets/93656/?ref=vjarmy.com) and [on her site](http://www.youngna.com/?image=050123%5Findex%5F12&ref=vjarmy.com), [Jake](http://www.bluejake.com/archives/2005/01/24/people%5Fi%5Fdestroyed%5Fat%5Fthe%5Fsnowball%5Ffight.php?ref=vjarmy.com), [Rion](http://rion.nu/v5/archive/000790.php?ref=vjarmy.com), [Keith](http://www.flickr.com/photos/overshadowed/sets/93786/?ref=vjarmy.com), [Tien](http://www.tienmao.com/archives/001535.html?ref=vjarmy.com), and at long last [Janelle](http://www.flickr.com/photos/janelle/sets/96245/?ref=vjarmy.com). I swear, this is the most photographed snowball fight in history.