Tag: Early Beginnings

The Evolution of Mt Van Hoevenberg and its Global Sliding Sports Legacy 

View of the Shady Curve on the combined track at Mt Van Hoevenberg with a black one person bobsled from Canada traveling around the curve.

Nearly 100 years ago on Christmas Day, something special happened in Lake Placid, an event that still echoes through these mountains and around the world.  On wooden sleds with metal blades, daredevils zoomed down North America’s first-ever bobsled track, built at Mt Van Hoevenberg for the 1932 Winter Olympic Games.  That moment marked the beginning… Read more »