Saturday, January 07, 2006

(S)Miles on sleds




The season is on! We had two six dog sled teams on six miles into town yesterday (railroad grade running) and one six dog team on our own trails... total of fifteen dogs (three ran twice).
Our trails are groomed and fast.

Dogs run were: Liller, Buffy, Lillen, Ruthie, Martin, Herman, Skinny, Matilda, Sherpa, Medio,
Kiddo, Quattro, Rosie, Yepa and Swix, some veterans and some young ones.

Conditions were just o.k. on the grade , gravel coming through snow, but dogs chose the softer parts. While we've groomed a trail to avoid having to leap a snowbank to reach the grade, the dogs chose the snowbank 'jump' each time. Today we'll try to improve that as the 'jump' is onto the busy road. There is some deep snow that needs to be groomed as one dog did pull a hip muscle along the way.

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