KIDDER TOWNSHIP -- A 10-year tradition took to the slopes at Jack Frost ski area. The resort in Carbon County hosted the sledding competition known as the Cardboard Classic.
Competitors tried to make it down the hill using only cardboard and a little bit of tape.
Philadelphia radio station WMMR hosted the tenth annual cardboard classic on the slopes near Lake Harmony. Elaborate sleds lined up, ready to try to make it down the snow tubing hill.
A Christmas Story-themed creation turned heads.
"We started out with a 'fragile' crate and then we said if you're going to build the crate, you got to have the lamp," said Dan Stoneback of Philadelphia.
The leg lamp was accompanied by Ralphy, and the famous metal pole.
The Munsters' mansion also made an attempt down the hill
"This is a middle-aged guys thing of teenage life trying to relive it. It's great," said Paul Hagenkotter of Philadelphia.
A larger-than-life nutcracker was a hefty load to get up to the top of the hill. Jason Lucci says putting it together was quite the task.
"It was like all hands on deck to get it up. We had stages, you know, legs, then up. Place it, put the other details on and then up again," explained Jason Lucci of New Jersey.
All of the cardboard sleds that go down the hill end up in a trash truck. And many of them are already broken down in more pieces than one.
"We weren't expecting it to fall apart. The rules were just take it easy so we could take it home, and it looks like we're taking it home in the dumpster."
The team's race car fell apart midway down the hill, a crash that destroyed months of hard work.
"Two months of fun, for what, 10 seconds of fame," said Justin Kich.
A giant gorilla folded right in half and other sleds' people came rolling off.
Ski patrol says they keep a close eye on everyone. The falls are just part of the experience.
"It's just a time for people to have fun, bumps and bruises here and there but nothing that doesn't deter them from coming back another year," said ski patrol member Coleen Lambert.
And for anyone who didn't make it down the hill in one piece, there's always next year.
