WEIRD FESTIVAL PHOTOS: Snake Roundups, Worm Races, More

WEIRD FESTIVAL PHOTOS: Snake Roundups, Worm Races, More
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World Toboggan Championships
Camden, Maine

The World Toboggan Championships, held in February 2009, attracted some 300 teams from across the Northeast to race down the Snow Bowl in Camden, Maine, onto frozen Lake Placid.

Many contestants chose to wear costumes. Here, members of the four-man Wonder Sled team, dressed as loaves of Wonder Bread, apply wax to their toboggan.

The team came in 46th but won the award for best costume.

Photographers Andrew Owen and Ross McDermott have documented 25 offbeat U.S. festivals since 2008.
—Photograph by Ross McDermott
 

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