Bail Story

My memory isn't too clear about this story, because it comes from a very very long time ago, I think I was maybe seven or eight years old at the time. So I was out with my brother, my Dad, my friend Anson and his Dad at I believe it was some scouts or cubs recreational thing, and it was the middle of winter. We all had brought sleds and the like, and there was this one massive hill, I clearly remember that the top of it was so steep that I honestly couldn't even walk up it. It's hard to describe, but imagine a hill that curved upwards so it became steeper the higher you were, had trees on both sides, and was maybe three hundred and fifty meters from the top to the bottom. The run itself was probably ten to fifteen meters across and at the bottom it went out onto a road, luckily you couldn't get going fast enough to reach it. So everyone was doing their runs down this massive hill (I think it might have been an old dirt road that had been closed off or something) and eventually a few of the adults pull up a giant tube that you would normally use for being dragged behind a boat or something. At the top of the hill me and all the people that I came with got in, plus one or two people I didn't know, I sat at the very bottom of the tube (facing up the hill, so I couldn't see where we were going) and we set off. At first everything was going fine, we were gently accelerating, until we got we got up to a decent speed, and then disaster struck! There was a little dip in the hill, and when we hit it the bottom of the tube got stuck in it, and did a complete flip! I got the worst of it because really I only rotated a little bit and fell out, but the people at the top of the tube got launched far! No one was left on the tube, and we all slid down to the bottom laughing and in pain, all in all it was a good day. Now I know this wasn't about bailing exactly because I had no idea what was happening, but it has to count for something, right?