Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Snowbanks and Trails


We hooked up six dogs early yesterday, knowing the trails were great. It was a nearly perfect 8 mile run, although on the takeoff our team had to leap a snowbank created by the plows over night, to get to the trail. The second snowbank caused a quick fall but they rallied well. Later on in the trail we met the large groomer coming toward us, so we had a smooth team turnaround , mostly thanks to Ruthie and Matilda, and they were off. It just cut us short one mile on this usual run. Not a single snowmachine yesterday.




Dogs run: Buffy, Ruthie, lead; Matilda, Sherpa, swing; Kiddo, Quattro, wheel. Copper has an injured foot, sad to say, so he'll have some quick repair surgery this a.m., and he'll have to watch from the sidelines for awhile, we think.




Leaders know their trails. I tried to lead them around the snowbank on the way home, but they went right back over the big snowbank again, smoothly.



We had hoped to enter a small race first weekend in March but just heard it probably won't go on, due to other races competing for teams.

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