I really want to go Riverdale Park sometime soon, and when I do I plan on using a garbage bag as a toboggan. I’m not sure if I’m spelling toboggan right.
I’ve never actually owned a sled or wooden toboggan. I would always use those plastic circles with the plastic circle handles. Mine was a very bright green. I always wanted one of those Brett Hull metal deathtrap GT’s, but for whatever reason I never got one. That was probably for the best, as they look like something that would have twisted perfectly around my mangled corpse. Then there were the cardboard box sleds that I used for so many runs. Those suck. They’d fall apart after the third run, and usually slide out from under me, causing me to roll awkwardly down two thirds of the hill. I’ve only ridden on inflatable tubes once or twice, but in my opinion they’re the best way to get down any slope. I even tried using one on the sidewalk on Logan in the middle of summer, but I scraped my knees up real bad.
So this brings me to garbage bags. They works sooo well, and are easy to replace – just bring a bag of bags! Plus they look really cool. The only flaw in their design is the unbelievable pain you feel when you go over the slightest of bumps. A few years ago, Garret, Joell, Seany, Ben and I went to Riverdale and went down in garbage bags. The impact of our bodies against the hill was causing my snug touque to fly off my head. My back has never been the same.
I hope to hit the slopes with my garbage bag toboggan very soon. Either that or Joell, you’re driving me to Canadian Tire and I’m buying a tube.
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