THE SLATERS
FOR SOME ADIRONDACKERS, the ultimate in North Country living is being able to ski out the back door. But for Harold Slater, in Jay, it’s about “putting your skates on in the house and heading right out onto your own personal rink.”
Harold first experimented with making a skating rink for his kids eight years ago. “Our driveway was a sheet of ice to begin with, so I thought it might work.”
He says it turned out to be an easy process, one “you can make as simple or as grand as you want.” Usually around mid-December, when temperatures are in the mid-20s and there are a few inches of snow on the ground, Harold, his wife, Karen, and their boys Harry, Van and Morgan “stomp out” where…