Happy Birthday, Julia! Jen's first six dog team

Today Julia celebrated her birthday and took three teams on different trails.

First, she took Buffy, Ruthie, Kiddo, Sherpa, Quattro and Martin for a 6.5 mile run to Florence and back. Trails ok, but some gravel poking through the new snow. Loggers felled a tree on some adjacent land and it revved up the dogs a bit. In this photo, Quattro is leaping to go.

Second, she took Matilda, Lillen, Rosie, Medio, Herman and Yepa over the Brule River to the Michigan turnaround for an 8 mile round trip run Part way back Jen took over the 6 dog team. She did well and chose to cross the bridge, voluntarily :) with her team. On Julia's run the team flinched at something in the woods and tangled very well. On the way back Jen could see the spot , but the dogs ran on by.

Third, Julia took a wild team , meeting six deer just off the trail and chaos reigned for a bit,
while Buffy, Matilda, Tsunami and Yeti sorted things out (and we sorted out their lines, pulled harnesses, etc. ) for 1.5 miles.

Skinny and Liller looked forlorn as we bypassed them on these runs. Maybe tomorrow.
Jen said she misses Skinny's confident stride.
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