Playboy After Hours
January, 1971
America's only bobsled run snakes down the north face of Mt. Van Hoevenberg in the Adirondacks near Lake Placid, New York. Seen from the spectator walkway that's built parallel to the course, the mile-long, ice-packed gutter in which bobsledders race against the clock while attaining speeds upward of 90 miles per hour looks like a roofless tunnel dug out by a huge antediluvian mole. Seen through the eyes of a novice bobsledder just leaving the starting gate on his maiden plunge, however, the tra...
