Swallow cliff sledding

Description:Archives The Demise of the Toboggan Run Even if the snow does fall this season, there's no use anxiously anticipating a ride down a toboggan run. All toboggan slides in Cook County are closed indefinitely. Whether it's because a sled made of wood with an old-fashioned curled front is no longer stirring or because climbing to reach a run is tiresome when one can just hop on a snowmobile or pop in a DVD, tobogganing has become a nearly obsolete pasttime, reserved for stories of yesteryear. Surely global warming and snowless winters have played their part in cooling interest in the activity, but even if the snow does fall this season, there's no use anxiously anticipating a ride down a toboggan run. Slowly over the past several years, the Forest Preserve District of Cook County deemed the slides, one by one, unfit to be opened until all were finally closed last year. Without having undergone proper maintenance with time, the wear of decades of activity, days upon days of people going down one after another from morning until night, had weakened the chutes, causing the wood to buckle.

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