As a young boy, I did that after a heavy snow. On a home maded sled. Two heavy pieces of oak cut on band saw and shaped with block plane. Smoothed with sanding block and waxed.
Rope was tied to a hole in the plywood top of the sled. short piece of rope allowed me to stay stable, but easy to release.
It was fun.
I lived next door to the school. The track field was straight out my back door, across the non-existant alley.
It was an ideal place to drag it.
Did same after a snow; hood of a VW towed behind a long bed C10.