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Dr. Lunchables posted:Yeah, the whole place was lit up, but not like… grotesquely so. The lights they used were soft enough to not drown you. It all felt very intimate, very “postcard” and Hallmark channel, if that makes any sense. Hey, I have that keyboard
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Cat rear end Trophy posted:That may have been your best write up so far. But I kept waiting for the part where you all were getting set to go to the ER after hitting the luge. Sadly, that was not to be. Eh, they pretty much give you a 5-10 minute spiel and give you a sled. It's not a super complicated deal, you pretty much twist one way or another to steer and the sled wants to stay in the middle as long as you are in neutral. That being said, you can get pretty banged up if oversteer and pinball off the walls. I did that a bit on my 2nd to last run because I basically launched into the wall on the first turn, haha. I didn't get too many pictures this year but here are a few. I might be able to scrounge up some videos from last year. Course map:  We start at the public start. The top start is basically decommissioned which you can kind of see in the images below. I think they said you generally hit somewhere in the mid 20s mph wise depending on the conditions. This year it was super cold and it felt like we were going really fast but the timing sensors were not functioning due to the fresh snow or something. Other Pics:  
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There’s a luge run in Negaunee (in the UP, not Negaunee Lake) that has a public luge run but I think you’ve gotta bring your own sled and gear. I never knew anybody who just showed up to luge without their own kit. I loved insanely dangerous sledding as a kid, so it would make sense for me to finally die on an icy hill as an adult.
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Dr. Lunchables posted:There’s a luge run in Negaunee (in the UP, not Negaunee Lake) that has a public luge run but I think you’ve gotta bring your own sled and gear. I never knew anybody who just showed up to luge without their own kit. OK, I know this is a bit of a derail, but I had never known there was such a thing as natural luge. I too grew up in the Midwest doing insanely dangerous sledding. Our family even had a 6 man toboggan that we took to the facilities in Cook County, Illinois. I think all of them are closed down now. As an adult with kids of my own, I now look back and wonder what the hell my parents were thinking. Loading 700 pounds of humans on a sled and then dropping us down a huge rear end iced lined chute. Good times. So now I am making plans to spend late January to early March of 2025 in Negaunee so I can learn and then master the sport in the course of 6 weeks. Hopefully I will be able to qualify for the 2025 worlds, as they are only held once every 2 years. Time to goonswarm this! Surely there is one among us who would prove to be a natural and Disney can make a movie about it.
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Mar 24, 2024 06:29
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Boy, I may have had a few cocktails when I crafted that sentence. But if we’re going up there, we might as well stop by Suicide Hill to do some ski jumping. I learned how as a kid, but haven’t done it in roughly three decades. I’m sure it’s just like riding a bike, right?
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It's (just) over the border in Indiana but Pokagon has a refrigerated track with 4 person sleds: https://www.in.gov/dnr/state-parks/parks-lakes/pokagon-state-parktrine-state-recreation-area/toboggan-run-at-pokagon-state-park/
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Proud Lake this Friday, just in time for the temperatures to drop. Michigan in springtime!
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