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http://www.wbrz.com/news/only-in-louisiana-video-captures-three-skiers-on-i-10

Oh mah Cher, here is how dem Cajuns cross country ski across dat Atchafalaya Basin on I-10. Oooowee, dey passin' a good time yeh.

As kids we grew up doing that. We called it bumped riding. In the 5th grade my friend was bumper riding, hit a gravel spot and took his entire front teeth out on the bumper. Not a particularly safe sport.

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Told to me as true, the picture above was for real and caused several road wrecks. Alcohol was involved...Geo

Like Tamid, I grew up doing that. In Winnipeg we called it bumper hitching. Loads of fun because of course, the adult driving the car would have a fit if he caught you.

You also used to have to have the right footwear for it to work best. I typically wore classic winter moccasins....a soft unlined leather moccasin outer boot (lace up) with a thick felt bootie or liner that fit inside. Same style footwear I used when I was doing a lot of snowshoeing. Back when you attached your foot to the snowshoe using lamp-wick, not some newfangled dang harness.

Things are not necessarily better now. Bumper hitching on a good day for it was the highlight of the winter. Fun, danger and threat of angry adults all rolled up into one! What could be better for a 10 year old.

We used tractors on the farm to pull people around. You could reverse the blade so it flattened and packed the snow down smooth. Then kids would grab ahold of the top of the rear mounted, reversed blade and get a great skiing trip. We also had several homemade sleds we would pull at unreasonable rates of speed, making random turns to give them a whip effect or to slingshot them off the road. All good, clean fun with not enough adult supervision.

It looks like those boys should be cold. Not much clothing on a couple of them. Oh to be young and dumb again. Well young anyways.

It's a wonder any of us survived to adulthood.
Mike

Having live in the north country(three years in a tent)it can get very interesting what people do to wile away the frozen time. One local town Drummond, WI races bar stools with skis down a hill. Webster, WI skips snowmobiles across open water on the local lake.

Here's some others.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/truly-odd-sports-invented-in-the-depths-of-winter

Oskar,

The snow kayaking looked like fun until they plopped into that freezing cold water.

When I was at LSU my friends and I thought it would be fun to water ski down one the streets flooded by hurricane rainfall. We figured if we could get some skis, some ski rope, a car with someone crazy enough to drive, then it should have worked. Unfortunately, we had none of the aforementioned.

The ultimate government job in Louisiana is to be the snow plow inspector in Cameron parish which is right on the Gulf. Somewhere in time I feel sure there was such a position but the guy probably quit because the work was too hard.

Those folks up in the north have a lot more time to come up with weird stuff on the snow. Those Louisiana boys actually did pretty good considering that might have been the first time they actually had the opportunity.

When I was in college in WI I remember some of the guys from down south taking pictures of themselves walking on the lake ice and sending them home to tell their family that they could walk on water.