The Art of Sledding

I’m not sure exactly why we need to have a post about HOW to sled, but apparently if there’s something that seems fun and easy to do without instruction, there’s a Classic around who will want to tell you how to do it fricking properly.* I jest, I jest! (Um, sort of.) So now I will do a little research for you on how to sled. First I will use my own brain database: I think you need to have some snow, which has been hard to come buy in these United States of America this winter. And second I think you need to have a nice little hill. Steep and long enough to make it worth your while and not too long so that you’re not dead by the time you make it up to the top of the hill.

Okay now I’ve expanded my search to the lovely landscape of Google and have found a very good video that looks like Kelly and I could have made it. Check it out here. Very funny. And then here’s a 12 Step guide from Instructables on the art of sledding.  Apparently plastic toboggans are the best for you Smarts out there who like to do things the best and smartest way possible, but someone who was probably a Fun suggested in the comments to try using an old hard plastic kiddie pool and that sounds like a great idea. But as an Organic I must tell you to exercise caution. Sledding can be dangerous, especially when your hill ends in a concrete reinforced creek. Yes my Organic grandma, who art in heaven, may you now rest in peace knowing that I will never let my kids do what we used to do. Madness. And yet we survived to tell the tale. Also, the colder the snow, the faster the ride. So try to go out when it’s still freezing outside, but make sure to cover up all your extremities. Okay now go have fun before the snow melts.

* Oh and I finally talked to my sister about why she wanted to do a PixieTip on how to fricking sled properly, because apparently there are people who think it’s normal to walk up the middle of a sled run?! It never even occurred to me that anyone would EVER think to do that. So if you never sled as a kid, please hear this: Walk up the side of the hill when you’re sledding to avoid collisions with sledders and give everyone more time to sled before the snow goes away, or somewhere, probably on the very hill you are walking up the middle of, my sister or someone like her is rolling her eyes in righteous disgust!