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unusual facts about sled



Baker Branch Saint John River

Spruce and Balsam Fir trees were bucked into 4-foot (1.2-meter) lengths beginning in 1917 and loaded onto sleds towed by draft animals or log haulers to the nearest river or lake.

Balto

Balto (1919 – March 14, 1933) was a Alaskan Malamute sled dog who led his team on the final leg of the 1925 serum run to Nome, in which diphtheria antitoxin was transported from Anchorage, Alaska, to Nenana, Alaska, by train and then to Nome by dog sled to combat an outbreak of the disease.

Carmacks, Yukon

Every February, Carmacks hosts a checkpoint for both the long-distance Yukon Quest sled dog race and the Yukon Arctic Ultra foot/ski/bike race.

Donald's Snow Fight

He gets a fur overcoat and pulls a sled, while singing Jingle Bells.

Dorothy Page

Dorothy G. Page (1921–1989), known as "Mother of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race"

Eugenio Monti

In the four-man competition, the Canadian team of Vic Emery damaged their sled's axle and would have been disqualified had not Monti and his mechanics come to the rescue.

Green Brook Township, New Jersey

Josh Pauls (born 1992), won a gold medal for sled hockey at the 2010 Winter Paralympics in Vancouver.

Harald Moltke

The expedition was a dog sled journey along the unmapped north-west coast of Greenland from Upernavik to Cape York close to Thule.

Heinkel He 176

During the 1920s, German daredevils had experimented with using solid-fuel rockets to propel cars, motorcycles, railway carriages, snow sleds, and, by 1929, aircraft such as Alexander Lippisch's Ente and Fritz von Opel's RAK.1.

Herbert Nitsch

Nitsch, who worked part time as a pilot for Tyrolean Airways, holds the No-Limits record, the prestigious title of "Deepest man on Earth" in which the diver can make use of a weighted sled to descend as far as possible and uses an air-filled balloon to return to the surface.

Hickman sea sled

The Hickman Sea Sled is an inverted vee planing hull invented by Albert Hickman.

Jamaica Dogsled Team

The Jamaica Dogsled Team is a member of the International Federation of Sleddog Sports, Inc., the Jamaica Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and the International Sled Dog Racing Association, Inc.

John Deere snowmobiles

His sled is currently on display at the Snowmobile Hall of Fame and Museum in St. Germain, Wisconsin.

Joseph W. Boyle

Boyle organized an ice hockey team in 1905, often known as the Dawson City Nuggets, that endured a difficult journey to Ottawa, Ontario (by overland sled, train, coastal steamer, then transcontinental train) to play the Ottawa Silver Seven for the Stanley Cup, which until 1924 was awarded to the top ice hockey team in Canada and could be challenged for by a team.

Martins Dukurs

Martins and Tomass' father, Dainis Dukurs, is a former bobsleigh brakeman, manager of the Sigulda sledding track, sled designer and coach of the Latvian skeleton team.

Matthias Lanzinger

He was first transported off the slope using a sled, then flown using a private helicopter (quickly refitted to allow his transport) first to Lillehammer hospital where surgery was performed, then on to Ullevål University Hospital in Oslo by ambulance helicopter for a new surgery due to problems with the blood circulation in the leg.

Merry Dog

Down on the snowy terrain, Pooch rides on a dachshund-pulled sled, and sings a jazzy version of the song Jingle Bells.

Mushing

:no:Finnmarksløpet - world's northernmost dog-sled race (Norwegian article)

Newton Marshall

It was there he first met the future sled dogs including Marbles and Jimmy (named after sponsor Jimmy Buffett) and his soon-to-be instructors Rick and Anette Johnson owners of Ah-Regah Kennel & Equipment in Mahtowa, Minnesota.

Nooksack Falls Hydroelectric Power Plant

The heaviest equipment ended up being shipped to the railhead at Glacier, loaded on a sled and pulled through the mountains.

Plasmo

The sled in the second episode Blast Off! has Rosebud on the bumper, referencing Citizen Kane.

Ron Ayers

Through a combination of rocket sled testing at Pendine Sands and extensive computational fluid dynamics testing Ayers was able to develop and refine a shape which would eventually go on to break the sound barrier.

Shvetsov M-11

It was also used for the up-engined GAZ-98K aerosani winter-used sled in a pusher configuration (as airboats use today), and as the standard powerplant for the similar NKL-26 propeller-driven sledges during the World War II years.

Siberian Husky

Dogs from the Anadyr River and surrounding regions were imported into Alaska from 1908 (and for the next two decades) during the gold rush for use as sled dogs, especially in the "All-Alaska Sweepstakes," a 408-mile (657-km) distance dog sled race from Nome, to Candle, and back.

Silke Kraushaar-Pielach

The sled sold for 1160 and the proceeds went to her sledding club in Oberhof.

Ski resort

Ski resorts often have other activities, such as snowmobiling, sledding, horse-drawn sleds, dog-sledding, ice-skating, indoor or outdoor swimming, and hottubbing, game rooms, and local forms of entertainment, such as clubs, cinema, theatre and cabarets.

Ski warfare

The most common transportation for Norwegian soldiers during the Norwegian Campaign in 1940 was skis and sleds, and in Operation Gunnerside, paradropped Norwegian commandos covered a large distance using skis in order to reach and destroy a heavy water plant Vemork at Rjukan in Telemark, Norway, which was being used by the Germans as part of their nuclear research programme.

Sled dog racing at the 1932 Winter Olympics

Norman D. Vaughan qualified for the event thorough a race held by the New England Sled Dog Club in Wonalancet, New Hampshire in the winter of 1932.

Sled Storm

The first game in the Sled Storm series was released on the PlayStation 1 video game console.

Sørlie

Robert Sørlie (born 1958), two time Iditarod champion Norwegian dog musher and dog sled racer from Hurdal

The Journals of Knud Rasmussen

Set primarily in and around Igloolik in 1922, the film depicts the relationship between a group of Inuit in Arctic Canada and three Danish ethnographers and explorers, Knud Rasmussen, Therkel Mathiassen and Peter Freuchen during Rasmussen's "Great Sled Journey" of 1922.

Tomass Dukurs

Tomass and Martins are coached by their father, Dainis Dukurs, a former bobsleigh brakeman, manager of the Sigulda sledding track and sled designer.

Uwe Krupp

Married to an American dog sled racer, Valerie Buck-Krupp, he likens himself to German soccer coach, Jürgen Klinsmann, who also resides in the US, married to an American, and schooling his children in an International School.


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