“We at Plattsburg are of all kinds and all creeds. We are rich and we are poor. We came from the fashionable avenues of the great cities. We have come even from overseas. The four winds of the earth sent us together, practically every vocational pursuit has its candidate. Into the melting-pot we went. There were no formalities.”
“At Plattsburg we have lost partisanship in patriotism.” (The Plattsburger)
Track Specification
Length to finish: 1455 m
Length to end of track: 1680 m
Curves: 20
Average Grade: 9.8%
Vertical Drop to Finish: 107 m
Vertical Drop to low point: 128 m
Maximum G Forces: 5.1
Maximum Speed: 130 km/h Official Site – Wikipedia
Average Grade: 8.6%
The old track: “Owning one of the great traditions in the sport, the original bob track in lake Placid was ranked among the most difficult. Lake Placid has hosted the Olympic bobsleigh competitions of 1932 and 1980 along with seven World Championships. In 1999 a new combined track was built for the Goodwill Games.” (link)
Wow, in 1917, the Association for the Protection of the Adirondacks successfully blocked “construction of a bobsleigh run on state forest lands, in the Town of North Elba, on the west side of the Sentinel Range, in Wilmington Notch“, which resulted in the construction of the bobsled track in its current location. (link)
