Toboggan Delight
For turning the chills of winter into the thrills of sliding, some folks head to their local toboggan hill where the action is. And that’s where producer Bob Carty went, to a little run near his home in Ottawa, Canada. There he found that while the means of going from top to bottom have changed, the fun and fear have not. He sent us this sound portrait.
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