January 31 - Tell what you used to go sledding in the snow.

When I was little we used a wooden sled....you would sit on top, hold a rope, put your feet on a wooden slat and push with one foot or the other to turn the runners. Another kind was a toboggan, but we usually used the wood sled. As we got older, we used plastic sleds and car tire inner tubes. We tried to get the biggest tubes because you could bounce high off it when you hit a jump. We loved to go up the canyon and find the biggest hill to go down. We usually went to a place up Big Cottonwood Canyon. We always made trains or would see how many people we could pile on one tube and who could stay on the longest. I loved going sledding/tubing up the canyon. I remember that my dad would sometimes pull us on the tubes down the street, behind the car. The streets were rarely cleared in our neighborhood so you could pull tubes behind the car, around the block. We loved sledding/tubing and playing in the snow.