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TOBOGGAPALOOZA:
build-your-own toboggans!

Theme by Mike Tan

Sunday, January 29, 2024

The return of the much-anticipated annual wintertime event where participants build (or decorate) their own toboggans and we all go sledding together! TOBOGGAPALOOZA launched this year’s Hibernation Project in style, featuring toboggans from the obscure to the ridiculous, the prehistoric to the otherworldly! Thanks to everyone who dusted off the ol’ glue gun and came to this brand new hill in Ramsay to ride the waves of snow with us.

PARTICIPANTS:

Aiden Tan
Andrew Davidson
Audrey Lane Cockett
Blake O’Brien
Brad Hawkins
Caitlind Brown
Carter & Sasha White
Chad & Edward Saunders
Clare Duckett
Foon Yap
Jeremy, Nelize, Arlo & Elliot Gignoux
Mike Tan
Rory Allen
Wayne Garrett

& many more attendees!

The photos in the blog post are by Mike Tan & Caitlind Brown, with a few from Aiden Tan.

Fiona McTaggart & Abby Vadeboncoeur, ripping down the hill!

Wayne Garrett and his Croco-toboggo-dile sled!

Foon Yap with her tote lid sled!

Blake O’Brien with his multimedia snowboard sled!

Clare Duckett with her lovely flat-land toboggan (created with assistance from Tiff Polancec).

Brad Hawkins with his diner seat sled!

Vicki Van Chau & Phil Bowen, witnessing the TOBOGGAPALOOZA with their sweet pups!

Rory Allen riding a sled as a toboggan!

Thunder runs with Chad & Edward Thunders on their homemade coroplast two-person sled!

The Gignoux Family with their Dragon Sled!

Bre, bringing the sass & the class!

Studio North faaaaaamilies!

Alien Andrew Davidson’s UFO sled!

Aiden Tan with his adapted snowboard sled!

Audrey Lane Cockett’s chair sled!

Caitlind Brown’s banana peel sled!

A contextualizing note from Caitlind: “it seems important to share that I chose a Chiquita Banana sticker arbitrarily, mostly because it was the nostalgic ‘fancy banana lady’ sticker of my youth. But a dear friend has since pointed out the less than savoury legacy of violence associated with Chiquita Banana in Colombia. We’re talking bloodshed and a great deal of tropical fruit crime. I definitely wouldn’t make this sticker again, even now, a few days later. But I appreciate that it led to some learning about the Banana Wars in South America. Just a little note for anyone, like me, who didn’t know the history associated with Chiquita Banana and the seemingly friendly fruit we so often enjoy “