Well, thanks to a bit more snow out our way, I was able to finally get some dogs out on the trail this weekend. This is Jack and Harris as we sit waiting for Ray's team to come out and lead the way. You can hear his dogs, my dogs and these two all whining and barking!
These two are SO freakin' cute and so much fun to ski with. They were pretty excited to be getting out as we had tried a bit of skijoring the day before, just around the property. But the other monsters were running loose and jumping in front of them/on their heads/etc, so it was nice to get out with just them!
Here we are, catching up to Ray. I had to shut off the camera and pay attention as we were going to run him over! I love chasing another team! We went out about 2.5 miles and Ray kept going on his 10-mile loop. When we turned around, Jack and Harris totally lost their excitement of chasing another team and we slowed right down. That meant a lot of work for me, which was good and fun, and quite exhausting for the first skijor of the season!
These two are SO freakin' cute and so much fun to ski with. They were pretty excited to be getting out as we had tried a bit of skijoring the day before, just around the property. But the other monsters were running loose and jumping in front of them/on their heads/etc, so it was nice to get out with just them!
Here we are, catching up to Ray. I had to shut off the camera and pay attention as we were going to run him over! I love chasing another team! We went out about 2.5 miles and Ray kept going on his 10-mile loop. When we turned around, Jack and Harris totally lost their excitement of chasing another team and we slowed right down. That meant a lot of work for me, which was good and fun, and quite exhausting for the first skijor of the season!
Some photos as we head out. Ray snuck ahead as we hit some BUMPY trail and I tried to slow down and avoid careening into trees!
Snow! Glorious snow!!!!!
Aha! There he is. So this is the new trail - it is a TON of fun! It gets pretty windy, which is fun whether you're on skis or on a sled.
Oh my cowdogs. I love me some cowdogs but when paired together, they are more useful fetching a tennis ball than skijoring!
As I say in the video, this was only a few seconds after we left the yard! So they're definitely not tired. We did make it down the hill to this spot though. I swear they were thinking "ok, where's the ball?!? Why else should we run??" - I guess we've been lacking in the training dept. this year. Aren't they cute though? You gotta love their waggly tails! Always happy these two.
So these two were a welcome change as they actually PULLED and ran full out all the way to the river. This is Rupert and Ripper. I had to shut the camera off here quick as I noticed I was rounding a corner and heading towards a tree. Whew! Luckily I missed Mr. Tree.
And I am going to get out and wax my skis! This skijoring day could have been a lot more fun if my skis actually slid well. But that's what happens when you neglect to wax at ALL since last year...
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I love the video of the two mellow dogs. I'm assuming you had skis on and that would make it even more difficult to get them moving.
How's your knee by the way?
I did have skis on so I was shuffling along behind them trying to drum up some excitement!
The knee felt pretty good for the day of skijoring. A bit sore at the beginning, then that went away fast.
The cow dogs were hilarious!~ Glad to see you are 'good as new' and that there is snow, very useful stuff in your line of play.
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