ski Wisconsin

My dad told me that when he was a kid growing up in Wisconsin, he and the other guys would make skis to have some winter fun. They would get some old shoes and nail them to barrel staves. Then they would slide down the hills. I don't know how they would climb back up. Of couse there had to be some broken bones that way because there was no way to release your "skis" and so if you wiped out you just took the brunt of whatever the hills would dish out.