I like Young Link's idea of snowboarding.
Like if you were to make a heck of a lot of 1x1s on a slope, and some-how make them all fakekill on touch with you skis, you will get a pretty cool effect while riding down. Like snow particles flying in the air. But don't forget to make it respawn in 1 second because if 2 people were to go down, it would not be pretty.