You find yourself at the top of a massive snowy hill. No trees or other obstacles in the way, it’s just hill and soft snow. Behind you is a collection of various types of recreational sledding devices.
What do you choose? (links are example images)
Classic runner sled
Traditional wood toboggan
Plastic toboggan
Snow tube
Saucer sled
Airboard (an inflatable bodyboard)
A cardboard box
Cardboard sheet
Something else
I’m kind of partial to the snow tube. Maybe the saucer. I like the total lack of control, and that it will spin around.
Growing up we generally just borrowed whatever anyone would lend us, or we just went with the cardboard. It worked fine.
I’m just going to go wait in the lodge for you guys to finish
I got, you know, bones and shit. I’ll be sipping some cocoa.
I spent my childhood sledding on a piece of cardboard box, and I see no reason to change now.
Hey, don’t Bogart that hot chocolate!
Skis.
If I had my way I’d use a plastic toboggan but one with levers that you can use to steer so you don’t have to rely on your hands and balance. I’ve never used a runner sled to see if they steer as well or are as comfortable.
I’m just going to go wait in the lodge for you guys to finish
My gf owns skis and all the accoutrements. I’ll drive with her to Seven Springs, but I spend the day in The Foggy Goggle.
I grew up using a classic runner sled but you forgot a whole category, the foam sled which is what I’d probably use for downhill…unless I’m out on the trails in snowshoes.
snow tubing is fun, with a rope tow up the hill- can get some speed up and gotta clear way at the bottom o fthe hill.
but to go outside today and take one pass down my hill, it’s magic cardboard ride - that’s it!~
When I was a kid we had a metal saucer sled. The neighbor kids had a classic runner sled. Their runner sled always went farther than our saucer, therefore I choose the runner sled. I suspect a good coat of wax on the bottom of the saucer might have improved its performance, though.
Now I live in California so I have to drive up to the mountains if I want to go sledding.
A plastic food tray from the university commons like we did in college. Man, those things could fly! The real challenge was to stand on it and try to stay upright while rocketing down that steep slope just down from the dorm.
Snow Tube all the way! They’re comfortable, cushion bumps, and due to their large surface area, they can glide over types of snow that lesser sledding options get bogged down in.
No love for shovels?
I’ve pretty much only ever used the plastic toboggan and my kids have followed suit.
When I was a kid in the SF Bay Area, we’d slide down the dead-brown-grass-covered hills on flattened cardboard boxes. I’ve paid my dues. I’ll be in the lodge with a nice, dark ale.
I voted “something else” because you haven’t lived (or maybe died) until you’ve tried sliding down an icy hill on a large cafeteria tray. Chances of ending up with the tray still under you are pretty slim.
I live a slow life. Speeding down a hill of icy stuff doesn’t seem prudent (:))
Move over Burpo, you don’t own the lodge sofa!
I voted “something else” – I want a Slalom Lenkung Schobob ski bike, the kind used by The Beatles in Help!
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz, goway, leemeelone.
