Talking about 'rare' winter sports . . .
Feb 26, 2017 16:53:31 GMT -5
Post by K Pelle on Feb 26, 2017 16:53:31 GMT -5
Here's one that isn't all that rare and isn't all that new either.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/skijoring-crowsnest-pass-1.3999779
My cousins, my brothers and I used to do this in the winter during the 1950s - if conditions were right. The horse raced along on a prairie road and the skier stayed in the ditches that ran next to the road. Our 'ski-jumps' were the road allowances that joined the roads, but you had to be real careful to use the edges of the grades on those because in some cases the cross-road accesses had darn steep grades and you really didn't want to hit a culvert is there was a need to handle drainage.
I was the youngest of the bunch and chickened out when my older brothers and cousins decided that horses weren't fast enough and brought out a Model A Ford as a tow vehicle. It was shortly after that when someone complained and the RCMP shut us down, only it couldn't have been all that dangerous - after all, we all survived.
KP
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/skijoring-crowsnest-pass-1.3999779
My cousins, my brothers and I used to do this in the winter during the 1950s - if conditions were right. The horse raced along on a prairie road and the skier stayed in the ditches that ran next to the road. Our 'ski-jumps' were the road allowances that joined the roads, but you had to be real careful to use the edges of the grades on those because in some cases the cross-road accesses had darn steep grades and you really didn't want to hit a culvert is there was a need to handle drainage.
I was the youngest of the bunch and chickened out when my older brothers and cousins decided that horses weren't fast enough and brought out a Model A Ford as a tow vehicle. It was shortly after that when someone complained and the RCMP shut us down, only it couldn't have been all that dangerous - after all, we all survived.
KP