With a gentle push the sled starts sliding, then accelerating as the pitch increases.
It is possible to simply immerse yourself in this silent world, to just sit back on the sled and enjoy the ride.
Alas, the sled has not been reinvented, not by these hobbit-nobbers, anyway.
Every time Holcomb enters the sled shed at Mount Van Hoevenberg, the one Bodine and Whelen Engineering were instrumental in building, he's dismayed.
Kuske is called the brakeman, but it's a misleading title, because he only applies the brake to pull the sled up after the finish.
The sled is equipped with a spotlight and an underwater camera.
The owner's English-speaking son even throws in a little advice: pull on the reins, like a horse, to bend the runners and steer the sled.
Following in depth analysis of his style, he learnt to make up time by maintaining greater control of the sled over the course of his runs.
Reddy used to take me and Anabel out on the sled, and sometimes other kids, too, and he had a special whistle that scared off bears.
The 29-year-old design engineer has developed the sled that the GB teams will be using and has had a good season on the World Cup circuit.
First, in order to turn you have to lean over to drag a hand, right or left, while grabbing hold of the sled on the opposite side.
"It's like saying, 'There's no Santa Claus, ' and suddenly seeing the sled go across the sky, " recalls Mr. Jerome, who says he's seen the Toaster 32 times.
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Dog teams are able to run without snow by using wheeled rigs, but ice makes underfoot conditions treacherous for the dogs and stops the sled's brakes working properly.
Even then, the sled has precious little lateral stability, and when it gets crossed up even slightly on a groomed, icy surface, it catches an edge and flips over.
She is the person up in Juneau, Alaska who's planning to ride 350 miles on a mountain bike through the snow on the same trail that's used by the sled dogs.
To return to the matter of stopping: The Stealth-X designers envision riders controlling their speed by carving like a downhill skier and stopping by kicking the sled sideways in a skilike spray of snow.
There have been other opportunities, but I was always reluctant for the simple reason that I am a huge dog lover and worried that pulling the sled was somehow unfair, harmful, or abusive to the dogs.
Second, as I feared, the seating position puts the rider's weight on the tail of the sled, rendering the steering runner useless that is, unless you shimmy your butt forward, knees up, like you're having a 40-mph Pap smear.
In four-man, Holcomb's forte, his USA-1 team in the original Night Train the sled that won Olympic gold was a distant 10th at Sochi, behind three German teams, two Russian squads, and one each from Britain, Canada, Switzerland, and the gold medal-winning sled of Latvia.
This is both harder and more of an adrenaline rush than it seems, because the sled likes to tip over and keeping it from doing so involves a lot of squatting and leaning, while going uphill means getting your weight off the sled and running behind, like pushing a grocery cart, to help the dogs.
But for the longest sled run in the Alps -- and, reputedly, the world -- head to the Jungfrau region of Switzerland and the touristy town of Grindelwald to hurl yourself 15km down the Big Pintenfritz.
The athlete's sled struck the inside of the track's last turn during his sixth and final training run, sending his body into the air and over a concrete wall.
NOME, Alaska (AP) A 53-year-old former champion has won the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race to become the oldest winner of Alaska's grueling test of endurance.
The young woman had parked her sled at the precise point I would hit if I lost control of my own and slid straight--instead of skidding racecar-style through the curve.
On her honeymoon, she and husband Olaus Murie (a scientist with the U.S. Biological Survey who later helped write and enact the Wilderness Act) traveled by steamship and then by dog sled through the Brooks Range, in winter.
More than 100 canine competitors are taking part in the annual Aviemore Sled Dog Race.
The second day of the annual Aviemore Sled Dog Race has been cancelled because of safety concerns.
The top eight sleds in the 33-sled field included two each from Switzerland, Germany, and Canada, and one each from Russia and Latvia.
Dan Seavey co-founded the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in 1973.
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