New Idea

I recently did some research on 'sandboarding'. It is apparently a pretty big sport during the off-season for snowboarders. I am going to try and get us into the cheap version of it since there is lots of sand here and it could turn out to be a lot of recreational fun.  

NO:
-cardboard
-plastic sleds
-bodyboards or snowboards (you can if you're ok with trashing your boards)
-plastic tarps
-skimboards
-wakeboards
-surfboards

Using a site that experimented with all of these and more, they highly recommended the use of "FOR SALE" signs. Imagine that! Cheap and Easy to prepare. All you need is some laundry rope and the sign (and some surfboard wax, which is optional). I won't go into too much detail, but it would basically be like a toboggan, until it gets too many dents and bends in it...then it slows down..and time to get a new sign! Holy Awesomeness!

If this becomes a big hit. We may (and I say may loosely) buy some cool and real sandboards someday...but they are $199 and up. They look like snowboards (I don't know alot about snowboards), but they have different straps for your feet. Ocean Culture (located in Australia) sells some boards and the ones that we would probably buy if we wanted would be the 'freeride' or the 'sandsled' which are more for beginners and are 'all-around-fun-boards'. The picture below is the 'freeride':

Basically, if you have snowboarded, surfed, wakeboarded, skateboarded, etc this will be an easy go for you. But if you have not, this is the easiest of them all to do...and if you fall, you fall on sand, which depending on the sand, it can be very soft! YouTube it! :) You can go here to learn more about it: http://www.duneboarder.com/dboarder/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.welcome    AND here to look at boards: http://www.oceanculture.com/index1.html