On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Barry E. Muller wrote:

> Ugh! Now you tell me I was supposed to wax those runners!  Of course with the
> amount of snow we usually get in Toledo, OH, we were through the snow and into
> grass and sand pretty fast!

In Michigan we got plenty of snow, at least when I was a kid (seems like
less these dys), but it was too soft for metal-runnered sleds.  The sled
of choice was the plastic toboggon.  That slick bottom really made 'em go.
Of course, if you *did* get a crust of freezing rain the toboggons became
unsteerable.  Not that they were all that steerable to begin with...

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