There were many sleds at the tobaggon hill growing up,

"The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock" (jukesjukesjukes) 02/01/2018 at 22:49 • Filed to: None

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but if you had one of these you were the king of the hill.

It looked exactly like this.

I had one, it rocked. I built massive jumps & absolutely sent it. I have no clue how I did not break it. I kinda “stunted” on it: Tail whips (then landing sideways & eating shit), turning the front ski mid-air with a lean (then landing ski turned eating shit). It was a tough damn sled. Also they do great “wheelies” if you stood on the back of the skis, & leaned all the way back & pulled on the steering wheel.

Then there was tying a long rope through the hole in the front of the frame, then tie the other end behind a snowmobile. My dad did 60-70kph with me on it, blasting me with snow. I built jumps in the back yard so I can hit jumps while my dad towed me at speed. It was fun until being towed in the air it nose dived with me on it, good thing I was wearing bike helmet & ski googles.

Now the same hill I went to growing up, is not as good. Signs saying “no jumps”, how are kids now supposed to have fun. A volunteer now stands guard to enforce that. The hill is short, but steep. When the snow is packed, it’s fast. When it’s ice, it’s suicidal (what steering, lol). Growing up on weekends there was always a line to go down, there still is today.

I miss that little sled. How I did not gets seriously injured on it I have no clue.

Edit: Looking around they still make a king size one, it’s tempting,

HammerheadFistpunch > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock 02/01/2018 at 23:25

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yeah the snow fox was the biz around here too. Of course my friends and I found a cooler way, basically sled knee boards. tape a plastic wrapped pillow to a sled and add a knee strap and viola!

360's, flips, you name it. It was a lot of fun to take up to the resorts before they opened. Yes, I could actually land a flip and a 360. it was fun before I had ski money.

Wacko > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock 02/01/2018 at 23:26

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We would call them GTs

I had the normal sized one then the big one.

They were all black and only black back then

The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock > Wacko 02/01/2018 at 23:29

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There were SR GT’s where I lived.

The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock > HammerheadFistpunch 02/01/2018 at 23:30

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I always wanted too to take to the terrain park at the ski hill, my mom told me that was a bad idea. I tried proving her wrong.

HammerheadFistpunch > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock 02/01/2018 at 23:32

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sledding was, for reasons unknown, a really big deal in High school. Half my dates it seemed like were sneaking onto resorts at night with headlamps and sledding.

shop-teacher > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock 02/01/2018 at 23:36

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I had one!

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock 02/01/2018 at 23:44

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I looked into buying one of these for my kid, but dang they aren’t cheap. I’ll stick with the 15 dollar sled that he loves

The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 02/01/2018 at 23:47

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They are not cheap, but extremely durable. It survived 10 years of my abuse too it.

Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock 02/02/2018 at 01:24

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Finally got the one thing I always wanted when I was 26. I hurt myself (sweet jump on first run) My Mom was right. She will never see this admission.

TheD0k_2many toys 2little time > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock 02/02/2018 at 03:43

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my parents still have my old one in their barn somewhere. I should go find it and tow someone behind my truck with it...

Birddog > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock 02/02/2018 at 05:15

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Everyone that had one of those has left broken pieces of the sled and themselves on “devil’s hill” (Westchester, Il). That was 30 years ago though.

Now, they have barriers. You can only go down the safest slope.

nermal > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock 02/02/2018 at 09:48

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I had one as well, but different color. Also jumped it irresponsibly, and stayed outside crashing in the snow for hours on end.

Fun times.