Eugene Miya wrote:
klaus wrote:
Ed Huesers wrote:
Who ever taught you how to *rocket toboggan*?
You'll need a periscope too.

??

In days of old, we had a toboggan at our snowcave for a couple
seasons. We would build ourselves a flat snow platform to get everyone
on the toboggan and then have someone push us off.
The problem was seeing where you are going when going down powder.
The front guy is the one that was supposed to be able to see and avoid
the boulders but the powder came up over the front of the toboggan
enough that one could hardly breath yet alone see.
We made sure that we started someplace where we couldn't hit any
boulders before we went out on a lake and came to a stop. The toboggan
was quite easy to turn as we did a few blind turns and the turns and the
entire ride were pretty heavenly.
There was another long run that would have required being able to
see so we could miss a few hazards. The run had a drift that we could
have jumped and been airborne for 40 ft. or more and only a couple feet
off the snow.
Well, we always dreamed of shotting a video of us coming out of a
boiling cloud of powder and into the air.
We never got around to the periscope.

Don't they call those SkiDoos?

Alaskans refer to SkiDoo as snow machines.

I thought they were snowmobiles and snow machines make snow at ski
areas.

Ed Huesers
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