Extreme sledding!

Sledding at Rosskopf is nothing like sledding at The Illinois State Fair Grounds. Here you take the gondola to the top of the mountain and then make your way down 10km to Vipiteno (the longest course in Italy). From what I saw yesterday, I'm starting to think sledding is more dangerous than skiing.

We all escaped unscathed except Sergei who has a bruised shoulder, a scraped nose, and a cut arm. He thought he would be daring and go down one stretch on his stomach. Unfortunately, he ended up over the side and met a tree (his words). When Kevin told me he saw him go over, I thought he was lying. And when Marina made it to us, she didn't believe Kevin either. Kevin thought maybe Sergei was playing around and was going to hit us with snowballs, but then we saw Sergei's hat get thrown up on the course from over the side. I felt bad taking a picture, but I had to capture the moment.

Kevin giving Sergei a helping hand.

Here are a few more pictures and a video of our sledding adventure. It was so much fun!

The weather was perfect.

Team Latvia

You really start picking up speed when you go down.

Team USA

Enjoying some post sledding Spritz.