Sorry for the crappy picture quality, apparently I inadvertently chose the "grainy" setting! Damn new fangled technology that I just can't be bothered to take the time to actually figure out!
This was a bit tempting, a broken down gigantic truck with a huge load of wood just past my driveway!
Heading out to pack the trails, thanks to Darrell's sweet trail groomer that not only packs the trail but levels it out as well. This will be nice for the "land of anthills" around here.
Packing trail on the river
The lovely snowy Mendenhall
George was having a blast, I had 7 maniacs running with me exploring the river as I packed trails.
Trying to find new trails through all the meadows, it was rather confusing at times! But the willow-whacking was a great workout.
We found an open meadow, yay! I love when it opens up like this, was a nice spot to make a big turnaround loop.
Kuna pulls up the rear. It was a good weekend, these guys got almost 20km of running in. In those 20km, only Jack and Harris were actually working dogs in harness for 5km on our skijor yesterday. The fresh, abundant snow made for some tougher skijoring for all of us.
Heading into one of the many meadows, it's really hummocky and bumpy! It looks like there's no snow, and there wasn't much the FIRST time I went out packing trails. I expect a very different scenario next time!
This was pretty funny to see, after about 10km, all the girls (Gracie, Ivy, Lucy and George) were just trotting in behind me, no attempt anymore to run all over and up the banks of the river. Just enough energy to follow the skidoo. Tired dogs, yippee!
4 comments:
It's certainly a different world than it's been for the past few month! I don't have enough energy left after the must-do cleaning to get our trail around the property opened up today - the dogs are pretty stinky, though (they need to go for a run to "blow the stink off" - one of my Mom's sayings from when I was a kid :) ), so it'll have to be done tomorrow..
What a temptation to head down to that logging truck with a chain saw and just whack a few ends off :)
Murray's chainsaw thoughts were the same as mine,"just a little trimming officer". Do you still have Rupert?
stacie , looks like fun. the dogs love romping in that snow. mine would love to join them. i know you can follow your tracks and not get lost but it looks like it'd be easy to get turned around out there. ken
Nothing like fresh snow to lift spirits!
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