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Crazy winter sports

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When I was a kid, I watched a couple people take a Hobie cat down a mountain at a ski resort.
 
I've never seen that before.

At Lake Hopatcong (and several other lakes near me), ice boating is popular in the Winter. Couldn't find any local vids, but here's one of ice boaters on the Navisink (about 45 minutes from me).


<span style="font-style: italic">(one of my friends once put cross-country skis on his ultralight airplane and landed on the lake our Summer house is on......shh, don't tell the FAA!)</span>

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aeronca65t said:
I've never seen that before.
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Might have been a one time deal for all I know. They had two skiers behind the boat (uphill) with about 40' of rope each attached to where the rudders would have been. Looked kinda like water skiing. Those two would steer the boat by skiing to the side, pulling on the back of the boat. Steering from that position, they couldn't really see where the boat needed to go. The people on board would scream directions "left...More LEFT...ARRRRGGGGGGG!"
 
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