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Sledding once meant stealing a trash-can lid

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Professional winter equipment is incredibly expensive, so thrill-seekers simply purloined circular metal garbage covers to spin uncontrollably down heavily packed hills, trading their safety for a very cheap adrenaline rush.

Sledding once meant stealing a trash-can lid
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