Tubing tales
One of my all-time favorite winter activities is sledding. Yes, I'm still a kid at heart.
The house I grew up in is built into a hill, so we already had the start of a sledding hill. Then my dad would take our tractor bucket and push tons more snow up on it, giving my sister and I sledding hill to carve a trail out of. It was great fun--adding jumps and curves.
Now sledding has gone high-tech. Kind of.
When I was back home in Wausau for the holidays, my friends and I went to Sylvan Hill Park in Wausau. When I was growing up, the hill was used for skiing with a tow rope, I believe. Now it's been converted to a sledding hill with a pretty cool contraption--a tow that takes you up the hill on your tube. How cool is that?
If you happen to be in the Wausau area in the next couple weeks for the Badger State Games, which also are going on there, give the tubing a try.
Anybody know of any similar tubing hills around here?
Feb 1, 2009 at 5:25 p.m.
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I also went tubing on sylvan hill it was awesome one of the best time in a long time!!
Feb 1, 2009 at 12:10 a.m.
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kiowa: Yes, you can still sled behind the mall. There's a sign that says you can not sled on one side (I forget if it was North or south side) but if you do go down the "forbidden path" it's more fun!
Jan 30, 2009 at 2:13 a.m.
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Do they still let you sled on the Janesville mall hill?
We use to do that all the time when I was a kid. When they got a lot of snow, we'd build like an actual luge path into the hill. By the time it turned to ice, it would be smoking fast. A few kids broke their legs and whatnot, and the city then got involved, and fenced in the hill, and I think they eventually reformed the entire mall hill?
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Best sledding experience I had was when I met a Canadian friend of mine up in Saskatchewan. We went to an actual bobsled course. I never got to pilot the thing (you need lots of experience to do that), but got to ride, and be the brakeman. They say you reach speeds of something like 50-60mph, but it sure seems like you are going WAY faster then that.
Jan 29, 2009 at 11:56 a.m.
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There is Sunburst in West Bend. They have the tow rope and also a moving sidewalk up the hill.
Jan 29, 2009 at 10:17 a.m.
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When I was in college we used (stolen) cafeteria trays. A rough ride, but fun.
Beer helped.
Jan 29, 2009 at 9:50 a.m.
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Great, another way for today's youth to avoid any physical exertion.
Jan 28, 2009 at 3:51 p.m.
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Christmas Mountain Village (west of Wis. Dells) also offers snow tubing.
http://tourism.state.wi.us/item_detail/C...
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I had a fun couple hours with a church group at Cascade a few years back. Either one should be good.
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You can also tube non-mechanically wherever you can sled (and wherever you can haul either up the hill!). It sure is more work, though.
Jan 27, 2009 at 10:32 a.m.
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Cascade Mountain offers sledding at their ski hill. Kind of expensive though - $20 per person for 2 hours.
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