Lakeland College in Alberta Canada holds world records for a toboggan ride carrying the most people in 1987, and another world record largest toboggan in 2013.
In 1987 Lakeland specially made a toboggan to break the record for the most people on a single toboggan. They broke the record by managing to fit 132 people on the toboggan and successfully ride it down a small hill.
Most of the record-breaking riders were Lakeland College students. If they had taken kids my age from all the hockey teams I play against then Lakeland might have been able to fit 250 people on their toboggan. That's a lot of hockey teams! And if all those kids were my size too then the college might have been able to fit 500 Otters on their sled! I told my friends about this but they said, "one Otter is enough to deal with. 500 would be far too many."
In 2013 Lakeland College wanted to break another record, this time for the largest sled. The sled they built was 9 ft 4 inches (2.58 m) wide and 36 feet (10.98m) long. The giant toboggan took 42 people about 330 feet (100m) down a hill.
After a few successful rides with people they used the sled to slide 3 cars down the hill, which may have been another record too! I think all those world records are still standing.
You're probably wondering how they got such a large toboggan to the top of the hill for all those rides. They used a farm tractor to pull it up the hill!
I sometimes wish I had a farm tractor to pull heavy sleds up hills. Every sledder knows that at the end of a long day of sledding, whatever sled you're pulling will start feeling like the world record heaviest. But sledders never give up.
For me the world record challenge is trying to pull any of my friends on a sled.
If the hill isn't too steep I can pull my friends, but they always complain that I take too long and go too slow.
Most people get tired of waiting for the sled to get up the hill, so they take over the job themselves. It's fun when I can sneak on for a ride without my friends even noticing.
Pulling these large heavy sleds all day is very hard work. This is when I start thinking about having my own farm tractor to help do the job.
We don't break world records like Lakeland College did, and we don't have a farm tractor to use on the hills - but when friends work together to pull at the same time we feel just as strong as a tractor. We can get the heavy work done and make it easy and fun. The excitement of speeding down the hills, and the teamwork we use to get to the top again, is why we look forward to going sledding every day!