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In today’s news: more tourists are injured gliding down a small hill with pulks than on snow mobile safaris. [https://yle.fi/a/74-20198806](https://yle.fi/a/74-20198806)
Locals (including doctors) estimate that a huge factor is simply lack of skill: Finnish kids tend to learn controlling and steering the pulk (which doesn’t have steering or brakes) at a young age but someone going down a hill with the body mass of an adult and zero skills, easily gets hurt.
The hills tend to end up hard-packed, meaning the surface is extremely hard and offers high speeds, and any dips and bumps end up acting like jumps. People, especially adults, strain joints, break bones, and someone had collided with an object in a way that resulted in a two hour job of sewing a big wound back together. The article mentions how accidents get a lot rarer when people are allowed in the hill only one at a time, as so many accidents are about collisions. One interviewed person states that if a kid weighs 15 kg and their father starts going down behind them, weighing 150 kg, it’s a lot like a bowling ball and a bowling pin.