Word: sledding
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...Gibson often whizzed down Cranmore Mountain on a wooden sled. But it wasn't until long after he'd made Who's Who, from a standing start as floor sweeper for an express company, that a chance remark by a relative aroused his interest in skiing. Cranmore Mountain had the snow in winter and the slopes. So he bought...
...while Val D'Or lived, as boom towns do, at a dizzy pace. In 1936 it had a population of 4,000 and was a hell-roaring mining camp in a valley in the middle of nowhere. Prospectors got there by plane, dog sled or canoe until a road was built. Beer was $1 a bottle. A town census registered 46 different nationalities. Shady characters prospered like green bay trees. In 1936, the first year that Val D'Or had a police force, Chief Leo Therien led a raid through the town's 300 unpainted board...
...cobalt stains on rocks are a pretty good indication of hidden, precious minerals. In 1930, remembering that he had read or heard somewhere that there were cobalt stains on the east shore of Great Bear Lake, he set out to see. He made part of the trip by dog sled, arrived at Great Bear Lake where the thermometer registered 70° below zero...
...Hemmed in by a closing ice pack, the 26 men at the Palmer Land camp had to risk an emergency flight out in their battered Condor plane. The plane could make only two trips, would be barely able to carry the men. What to do with their well-loved sled dogs...
...Chinook Kennels in New Hampshire, where Admiral Byrd got the sled dogs for his expeditions, there now stands a Byrd memorial: "To All Noble Dogs whose lives were given [in] Little America ... to further science and discovery...