AlNyhus
Silver $$ Contributor
While many inhabitants of our 'Wooville-like' wide spot on the Northern Plains were nursing hangovers, my bride and I took advantage of a perfect Winter morning today and took one of our grand daughters sledding.
This spot is known by the locals simply as 'The Hill'. Smooth as ice, hard as concrete and fast as hell, 'The Hill' simply eats equipment. Besides these two piles of destruction, there was a half dozen other sleds, inner tubes and saucers piled up in a dumpster. I did score a nice aluminum saucer that looked like the one Clark Griswold rocketed downhill on in Christmas Vacation...good material for some future project. At the top, there's a landmark known as the 'Hangin' Tree' where legend has it that Tom Egan was executed for the death of his wife in 1880. Tom was innocent but justice on the prairie was swift and sure in those days and the finer details weren't as important as the outcome. I grew up here with his great grandson, also named Tom Egan. They had to hang him three times to make it stick. The true facts are he was hung on a gallows downtown, it did take three attempts and years later on her death bed, his stepdaughter admitted to the murder of her mother. In any event, the 'Hangin' Tree' gives the place a little frontier panache' and a bit of eerieness.
If you avoid an end over, a barrel roll or anything that might scrub off speed, a good ride will carry you to the middle of the lower flat. My Leicas make it out to be a just a skosh over 700 yards.
Good shootin'
-Al
This spot is known by the locals simply as 'The Hill'. Smooth as ice, hard as concrete and fast as hell, 'The Hill' simply eats equipment. Besides these two piles of destruction, there was a half dozen other sleds, inner tubes and saucers piled up in a dumpster. I did score a nice aluminum saucer that looked like the one Clark Griswold rocketed downhill on in Christmas Vacation...good material for some future project. At the top, there's a landmark known as the 'Hangin' Tree' where legend has it that Tom Egan was executed for the death of his wife in 1880. Tom was innocent but justice on the prairie was swift and sure in those days and the finer details weren't as important as the outcome. I grew up here with his great grandson, also named Tom Egan. They had to hang him three times to make it stick. The true facts are he was hung on a gallows downtown, it did take three attempts and years later on her death bed, his stepdaughter admitted to the murder of her mother. In any event, the 'Hangin' Tree' gives the place a little frontier panache' and a bit of eerieness.
If you avoid an end over, a barrel roll or anything that might scrub off speed, a good ride will carry you to the middle of the lower flat. My Leicas make it out to be a just a skosh over 700 yards.
Good shootin'
-Al
