While in college in NE Indiana, which is peppered with lakes I raced on the ice--almost every weekend. I had tires with walnut shells embedded in the compound. I loved it when there was snow on the ice and they plowed the snow. Given enough time, those snow banks would harden up and I learned to use them like banked corners. I won a lot of races using that trick but on occasion I would get "unreasonably exuberant" and fly over the top of the snow bank. That normally resulted in me perched high and dry in the snow on the other side---and thoroughly stuck
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