Plate XIX
THE THREE KULM RINKS
Plate XX
LADIES’ CURLING MATCH, ST. MORITZ
CHAPTER IV
TOBOGGANING
To descend an ice-run like the Cresta at St. Moritz is no doubt a most thrilling and skilled adventure, but the vast majority of people who say (with perfect truth) that they enjoy tobogganing would sooner think of ascending in an aeroplane than descending the Cresta, and would freeze with fright at the thought of embarking on it. On the other hand, the skilled Cresta runner would no more think that the quiet descent of snow-covered roads on a Swiss luge was tobogganing in his sense of the word, than the aeroplanist would allow that a man practising high jump was flying. From which we may rightly infer that there are various sorts of movement which are covered by the word tobogganing.
As a matter of fact there are, commonly practised in Switzerland, three broad and widely differing species of tobogganing. They are as follows: