I went sledding today

[pigpen]

I took the kids across the street where there is a gravel pit and some huge slopes. I learned the difference between a 37 year old verses a 7 year old.
While zipping down the slippery slope on a sled with my kid she hollers out "I hope I don't break my sled" All the while I thinking "I hope to hell I don't break my leg"

After two hours there were only two injuries, and thats not including what I'll feel like in the morning.

 

[dodgedifferent2]

lol ... *pictures 68r/t on a sled*


i hate the climb back up the hill .. they should make a ski lift on some of them toboggan hills!

 

[74DartSport]

Try going out as a 48 year old. Aleve, Tylenol, Motrin every 2 hours on a rotating basis. The golf course where we go is built on a hill. One spot where we go you go down a short steep hill, across a fairway, then it drops into a 8' deep sandtrap. The kids were getting serious air at the dropoff. I didn't try that. I have yet to see a regular sled out here. All these tubes, dishes, foam boards and plastic things. No classic tobaggans either.

 

[71dusterman]

The hill I used to go to as a kid started with about a 12' 80* drop to about a 1/4 mile run that had varios drops thru that into a stubble field that almost went another 1/4 mile. with some of the tobbogans we used we would actually go from hill peak to peak without touching in between. as a young kid about 4 runs a day would do you in as the walk back up the hill was a killer. We once had about 8 people on a large tractor iner tube and as it went down the hills it would spin and usually not everyone made it to the bottom. Today at going on 54 one run would probably kill me, but what a ride it would be. The return trip wasn't so bad if you had a snowmobile to get back up the hill.

 

[mr340]

I went out with the boys today too, we have a small hill right in the yard that is just fine for them. There are some pics which I might post up before July if i remember

 

[mr340]

The golf course where we go is built on a hill.

Knoll C.C.?

 

[pigpen]

It's morning. I feel like I went 10 rounds with Mike Tyson..........as his punching bag.

 

[dodgechargerfan]

The hill we used to go sledding on is still called Suicide Hill and ya can't even sled there anymore - roads and buildings built up around it made it useless.

 

[74DartSport]

Knoll C.C.?

:2thumbs:

Yeah, the main sledding hill is the driving range by the big Knoll (west).

 

[mr340]

:2thumbs:

Yeah, the main sledding hill is the driving range by the big Knoll (west).

Are you as sore as the rest of us today???

 

[Moparlady]

When we were kids, we used to go to a golf course, too, it was built sort of on the side of the Hamilton mountain, so lots of great hills. Haven't been up that way in years, and it's so built up around there now, I'm not even sure the golf course is even still there. Probably is, but I doubt they allow tobogganning there anymore.
Never mind today's fancy sleds and tubes, there's nothing like a good, old-fashioned wooden toboggan! :giggedy:
But............God forbid, I'd never try it now........Piggy, I can imagine exactly how you're feeling, I feel like that most mornings anyway! :bwuhaha:

 

[74DartSport]

I'm not feeling too bad. The pain in my left arm from the lack of grip strength sucks though.

 

[68R/T]

lol ... *pictures 68r/t on a sled*


i hate the climb back up the hill .. they should make a ski lift on some of them toboggan hills!

Hence the reason I loved snowmobiling, every path is "downhill".....:giggedy:

......plus the fact that none of the trails go from church-to-church. :shifty:

 

[BootHead]

Hence the reason I loved snowmobiling, every path is "downhill".....:giggedy:

......plus the fact that none of the trails go from church-to-church. :shifty:

Minnesota bars looked like Sturgis for 'biles at times. :bravo:


After this storm peters out I may have my own slaying, err I mean, sledding story.:hehehehe:

 

[ORVIL]

WE used to tie off on the back of car. about 30 feet of rope each - 3 of us at a a time on separate sleds- sauciers were good but wore your butt out when yad hit gravel. toboggans were good til ya hit a tree branch or a mailbox. 3 foot ski,a were good until ya have to run. yup we did it all. we survived it all. we almost killed ourselves then . yes we were invincible-- now we are in pain. i dont like mailboxes . i couldnt see myself as a country postal worker. i am proud to say i took out 2 posts and boxes and i am glad -- oh so glad they were rotten posts. i have often wondered out loud when driving in the country backroads saying to my wife -- i am glad i did not hit a 4 inch pipe holding up a box. and she looks at me with a grim face as if to say ooouuuuuch that would hurt . hit a branch laying across the road and distroyed a 5 ft tobbogan . was great when skipping ditches and grabbing air. concussions were of the norm and Ace bandages and Southern Comfort.. we took to wearing helmets to. now you all know why i - i - i - i - i - i - i - i what was i saying? those days are done memories i,ve had a few.:dgt::dgt::dgt::dgt::dgt::dgt::dgt::doh::doh::bwuhaha::bravo: Hills are for kids-- big kids to--- we had fun. i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i think?

 

[BootHead]

we had fun, I think rofl

 

[Dr.Jass]

We did a lot of sledding back in high school on the local ski hill. The last "sled" I rode was a modified Coleco, with a wooden subframe bolted to my sister's old Rossignol racing skis, freshly hot-waxed with the edges rounded off. On some of the longer runs, you could easily go over 60MPH on that thing... I know--I got chased by a snowmobile.

Same ski hill has a 90m ski jump--it was the largest in the world into the '70s. A friend of mine decided it would be fun to go down the landing--about an 80-degree incline near the bottom, mind you--on a refrigerator box. After he crashed near the end, the bottom of the box was charred and smoking.