Powder gives the road-rash defying look street luge riders seek for high-speed downhill runs
You're lying on your back on a contraption suspended an inch or less above the road rolling downhill on skateboard-style wheels reaching speeds of 70 miles per hour and the only way you can stop is by skimming your feet along the pavement.
If you're not an initiate to the extreme sport of street luge, you might think this scenario is a hyped-up pitch for a Mountain Dew commercial. But for the past few years, a once renegade form of thrill seeking is now an organized sport with national competitions, its own association, and pros and amateurs trading stories, selling wheels, and forming racing clubs via the electronic superhighway.