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Toboggan Championships February 03, 2007

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This weekend in Camden, Maine, more than 300 teams are competing in the 17th Annual U.S. National Toboggan Championships. The name is probably a bit overstated. Anyone with the right kind of sled can take a ride down the 400-foot, ice-covered chute on Ragged Mountain. And they will. Men and women, old and young, people in costumes with no chance to win and people who take this really, really seriously are all competing. And there is one man who helps make it all possible. They call him the "chutemaster." We sent Keith O'Brien to talk to the man who makes it all happen.

Take a ride on a toboggan...

Video courtesy Vacation Land Productions