Rounds of cheese are piled there ready to be taken off on wooden sleds to be weighed.

It has been snowing nonstop for nearly two days, snowplows are working around the clock and shoppers are using small wooden sleds to haul groceries.

Modern aerodynamic designs make the new snow toys faster than the old wooden sleds, and the lack of steering and brakes only seems to add to their appeal.

Fishermen lived in wooden sleds called (pudka) during these trips.

Because of the region's moderate winter climate, mushers in Connecticut have traditionally preferred to use three-wheeled triangular metal frames called wheel rigs in place of wooden sleds.

Among the relics found there were at least one perfectly preserved wooden sled that bears an uncanny similarity to the wooden sleds Nenets tribesmen use today.

The mountains were a painted backdrop in the distance as the half-dozen teams of six dogs each pulled the curved wooden sleds through a pristine river valley - very "Dr. Zhivago."

When Mirror Lake freezes in the winter, the three-story chute becomes a toboggan run, flinging couples and families across the ice for a series of 360-degree spins on the old, long wooden sleds.

And then we were at the top, and as each one got off the train, child after child flopped down onto sleds - old-fashioned wooden sleds, high-tech metallic numbers, even plastic saucers.

One theory has it that the early settlers cut down the trees to make wooden sleds or rollers for transporting the stone heads to the coast.