Off we go, into the wild blue yonder

Corporal Rob Richard, U.S. Air Force and his sister , Katie took nice runs today.

The dogs started getting excited at 9AM when I brought the sleds out, screaming to go most of the morning, altho we didn't take off until 1PM. Rob is home between assignments, for the holiday... really great to have both of them here. The dogs 2nd that!

We took some different combos and especially wanted to let Copper run, since he makes a point of 'telling' me every day, "You've forgotten I'm a sled dog!" He ran single wheel in a 5 dog team and did just great. Sherpa got a chance to try lead again, with Buffy, and not a hitch, she's very focused. Skinny always gets first honors and he ran lead with Ruthie; Rosie ran lead with Buffy. The teams dumped Katie and Rob each one time, but these runners (humans) were amazing at jumping off the machine and leaping on the sled to capture them. Nice saves!

All of the dogs (12) had great runs and it was a lot of fun to bring in the New Year this way.