The device in question, an "extreme sports board product" called a Pivit, is a new children's toy invented by Rob Rosborough, a self-described "anyboarder" (surf, snow, skate, skim) from New Jersey.
The one-upmanship would get ramped up during the holidays, where the main event was always the backyard snow skate.
Once they'd constructed these obstacle courses, he'd hop on his board, and have snow skate competitions with Callum.
The snow skate park became a regular tradition for several years of Pettit's childhood, but through all of the falls off his DIY skate park set-up, there were never any serious injuries.
Along with his brother and friends, he would rummage through the yard, finding tires, pipes, 2x4 with nails, and fences that he would bring home to set up his own snow skate park in the backyard.
Grandma Kim Bright from Brandon, Manitoba, has been making viral videos of herself wearing a bathing suit in subzero weather while snowmobiling, skating, snow shovelling, and all other things typically Canadian.
Val Thorens thoughtfully provides an avalanche of activities and facilities for the non-skier, such as other daredevil frolics in the ice and snow (ice skating, ice driving, tobogganing, dog sledging, and sleigh rides), or swimming, squash, tennis, table tennis, bowling, trampolines, and bouncy castles.
That would include very large shaved-head man in a kilt; a high school teacher who brought along the school's cheerleaders; an Eskimo who brought snow; roller skating sisters and one man who tended to erupt in a stream of curses in his native Italian.
It was, however, a bad time to visit the Jardin d'Essai, for it had been very cold for some days in Europe, and we heard afterwards that there was snow at Avignon and skating near Marseilles, while we were shivering under the India-rubber trees of Algiers.
