TEAM #106, The Flying Beer Boys from Lincolnville, Maine with Andy Hazen and crew kick up snow on Hosmer Pond as they come to a stop at the finish of their 3-man qualifying run on Saturday during the 2009 U.S. Toboggan Nationals. The team ultimately placed 8th in the Three-Person division finals. 02/07/2009 |
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Night of the Living Sled, Team #187, from Rockland, Maine comes down the chute and onto the ice in Saturday's preliminary races. The three persons on the team were all "dressed to kill" sporting blood covered zombie suits and gut-spilling gashes. Not known for speed, the zombies did not qualify for the finals primarily because they used a Snow Bowl toboggan. 2/7/2009 |
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New style team tags on a lanyard (left) were issued for the 2009 Nationals. Vince Bemis (right) with the<strong> Fat Bloated Idiots</strong> shows off his green bracelet that race participants get only after signing a waiver at registration. 2009 was the first year this requirement was implemented. Bemis liked the new numbers issued to the contestant in lieu of the numbered bibs worn in the past but he took issue with the practice that the bracelets had to be put on by race officials and could not just be mailed to the teams. In general the team tags were well received but the bracelets were not. 02/08/2009 |
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Three-Person division team #167 The Brothers Grimm from Nashua NH take a tumble onto Hosmer Pond after their first preliminary runs down the chute on Saturday. They scored 8.98 seconds on this run but in spite of their showmanship, never made it to the finals. 02/07/09 |
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Wonder Sled, Team #333 won the award for best costume. Team members from left to right are Gabrielle Rious, Erin Herbig Povec, Josh Povec and Kevin Herbig. 02-08-2009 |
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12/05/2008 Christmas by the Sea celebrations take place each december in downtown Camden, Maine. The 2008 festivities featured a parade where one of the floats promoted the Camden Snow Bowl and the National Toboggan Championships. |
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02/09/2008 Sled #172 “Big Test Icicles” from Southwest Harbor, Maine. This was a 3-person team that progressively lost one “Big Test Icicle” after another along the bumpy run-out onto Hosmer Pond after their run on the chute during the 2008 U.S. Toboggan Nationals. |
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02/10/2008 Are you wondering who won the toboggan at the 2008 National Toboggan Championships? Mark Siegenthaler (Right) won the 1st place prize, a hand crafted toboggan, in the 2008 Jaret & Cohn Real Estate Winter Toboggan Raffle. Proceeds to benefit Midcoast Habitat for Humanity. Agents left to right are Jackie Case-Hall, Bridget Palmer, Sandy Ellsworth,and Nancy Hughes (all of Jaret & Cohn Real Estate) and Mark Siegenthaler of Camden, winner of the Toboggan Raffle. |
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02/19/2008 Although there is no award for the most colorful team at the National Toboggan Championships, the Connecticut Crazies would have easily taken 1st place. Crazies pictured are Jay Hess, Wallinford, CT, Tony and Sherry Anonio, North Haven, CT, and Kim Hess from Wallingford, on right. |
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| 02/07/2004 During the 2004 U. S. National Toboggan Championships, The same team that dressed as Sponge Bob and Squidward the year before showed up as the Cat In The Hat along with Thing One and Thing Two. Thing 2 is Sue Zdanowicz of Branford, CT, Thing 1 (mid-toboggan) is Kim Hess who with Jay Hess, the Cat in the Hat, is from Wallingford, CT. |
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| 02/01/2003 Sponge Bob Square Pants (Kim Hess) and Squidward (Jay Hess, both from Wallingford, CT) slide down the chute during the 2003 U. S. National Toboggan Championships in Camden, Maine. |
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