I will bet a lot of scraped skin resides on that road today, with the popularity of skateboards.
At least in the winter you have a bit of a cushion and less friction coming to a stop.
Neighborhood Dead Man’s Hill, lol.
Didn’t get any speed until the bottom of the run on the vintage sled. The run ended up on the main road. About 2 hours later a vehicle went by. Rush hour traffic. Yep, I was that close to death.
Never learned to snow ski (was great on water skis) so sledding on the local slopes is our thing. On a really good day you can approach 30mph. But if not careful, taking a video of the wife having fun ends up in a snowy barrel roll. Tumbling down the hill at 67. Brush yourself off and do it again.