Oregon Considered

Ski Areas Experiment With Extreme Sledding

February 13, 2006

0213_airboard.jpgIf the Winter Olympics are giving you fantasies about plunging downhill head first in daredevil style, we have a way to approximate the feeling without shelling out for a trip to Turin.

It involves a sleek, inflatable sled and a cooperative ski resort.

In the Northwest, there's Schweitzer Mountain in north Idaho and the Hoodoo Ski Area in Oregon's central Cascades. That's where we sent correspondent Tom Banse.
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