Bill Davis, led us up a steep snowhill and showed us how to body-sled down, head-first, on our backs.
Mr. Phillips paused to show me how to edge the sled, as in skiing, and how to sit back.
I can also sit at the top of the slide and show people how to use their sleds.
Because I couldn't work the lift, I spent a lot of time up there — in a high, sunny, sandy clearing, surrounded by white pines and hemlocks and scraggly junipers — showing the people who emerged from the path in the woods how to use their sleds.
Although Jim does the driving himself, he taught us some of the basics, like how to hook up the sled, and asked us to help.
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Mark Day, 38, brought his 13-year-old daughter, Chelsea, to teach her to how sled just as he had learned as a boy on the same hill.
At the Sanki Sliding Center, U.S. skeleton racers were figuring out how to set up their sleds.
Almost reluctantly, Stan Jr. begins to enjoy learning at least some lessons in the old ways: how to harness a team of sled dogs, set a snare for a rabbit and unfurl a net under the ice when fishing in winter.
And the expedition might have fared better had he given more than sporadic attention to training his men how to manage and drive the 60-odd sled dogs on board.
