The Vaille Family

Only in the little town of Leadville would they have ski joring at their winter carnival.

For those of you wonder what the heck ski joring is, "Ski joring entails a horse and rider pulling a skier down a snow-packed road over jumps while spearing rings in a timed competition"

 

Yes, they pack all this snow on Main Street and people line the streets to watch the races.

 

These crazy teams fly down the road and over the jumps at 40 mph.

 

 

None of the jumps look pretty but we only saw one guy fall and he got up and kept going.