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Post any funny or entertaining sledding/skiing/snowboarding/snow related stories you remember here:
The only thing I can really remember was when I was 15, I decided I wanted to hang out with the "big kids", who were all 21. They brought their 'Flying Saucers' (I think they stopped selling them due to things like what I'm going to describe happening to a lot of other kids), which are really just a circle of metal with a dent in the center to provide a place for your @$$.
We have these huge sandpits where I live, so we went to one of those. Think of the incline on a double black diamond ski slope and that's pretty similar to what we were going down.
So they start going down, sitting at first, then testing squatting only to fall on their asses before making it halfway down. Me, having my premium black sled with hand brakes decided to try it after they had taken turns for a few minutes. It wasn't really much to talk about, I basically started at the top, and ended at the bottom in about 7 seconds (the slope was a good 40-50 feet long, with an abrupt stop at the end where the ground leveled off).
After my first run, all the big kids started pressuring me to use one of their saucers. I was scared as hell at the time, but I wanted to fit in, so I agreed.
A little more than halfway down, the saucer hit some ditch, or rock or something along the way. I never really bothered to look as I was too busy flying through the air for the remaining 15 feet. Landing belly first, I had seconds to roll over on my back before my saucer landed on my stomach, knocking what remaining air I had, out of me.
I think I still have one down in my cellar somewhere, but I tend to avoid the steeper slopes from now on
The only thing I can really remember was when I was 15, I decided I wanted to hang out with the "big kids", who were all 21. They brought their 'Flying Saucers' (I think they stopped selling them due to things like what I'm going to describe happening to a lot of other kids), which are really just a circle of metal with a dent in the center to provide a place for your @$$.
We have these huge sandpits where I live, so we went to one of those. Think of the incline on a double black diamond ski slope and that's pretty similar to what we were going down.
So they start going down, sitting at first, then testing squatting only to fall on their asses before making it halfway down. Me, having my premium black sled with hand brakes decided to try it after they had taken turns for a few minutes. It wasn't really much to talk about, I basically started at the top, and ended at the bottom in about 7 seconds (the slope was a good 40-50 feet long, with an abrupt stop at the end where the ground leveled off).
After my first run, all the big kids started pressuring me to use one of their saucers. I was scared as hell at the time, but I wanted to fit in, so I agreed.
A little more than halfway down, the saucer hit some ditch, or rock or something along the way. I never really bothered to look as I was too busy flying through the air for the remaining 15 feet. Landing belly first, I had seconds to roll over on my back before my saucer landed on my stomach, knocking what remaining air I had, out of me.
I think I still have one down in my cellar somewhere, but I tend to avoid the steeper slopes from now on
