Originally Posted by whimsey21

You sit on a small sled like thing with a handbrake (you can find pictures people have posted on-line). I've only done this once, but we couldn't go nearly as fast as we would have liked (I was sharing a 2 person sled with my child; they also have 1 person sleds) because after a few minutes of going reasonably fast we caught up with "traffic" - a long line of sleds stuck behind someone going very slow and using their brake continuously. The entire trip down on the sled took about 5 minutes; at peak speed we were probably going as fast as someone running down the hill would have gone. It was definitely fun until we hit the traffic jam.