The Dogs!

Yep, we're fully into spring, the snow is melting (not fast enough dammit!), the poop is mushy, some still half-frozen(you all expected a poo update right?) but we can still zoom around on the skidoo! It makes for great after-work exercise for the dogs, not so much me. But now the roads are dry, so biking is in full swing!! I couldn't walk out in that slushy mess very easily, so the skidoo does the job. The dogs chase me and keep up and hopefully the porcupines (knock on wood) have moved faaar farrrrrrr away!!!!!

And a mere few days before we headed off on our Anchorage trip, Dave, Heather and I finally got out for a group skijor on the river. The conditions were great, only a teeny bit of overflow and some ice, but pretty good otherwise. This is the best time of year for running with the dogs - it's warm, light out FOREVER and all around fantastic.


Dave preps the crew


Going down the EVIL Gorge - the place I've repeatedly come careening down 100miles/hr unable to slow down, ran over dogs, flew into the bushes and much more I've tried to bury in the deep recesses of my brain. I tried to dig that stupid spot wider in the summer and it kind of worked, but then my efforts were quashed by the spirit of the Gorge that I'm sure made me fall off the 4-wheeler and burn the crap out of my ankle. So I have nothing good to say about that spot. Heather was smart not to stand up and give in to the whim of the Gorge.

But I digress!

Heather hangs on and does the life-saving extreme snowplow!


Jack looks back as we wait for the other guys. Look how non-excitable they are here! I love it! No being dragged on my butt anymore. Now I just have to teach Pooh Bear! this trick!


Now I have Sadie (of Dave/Heather land) but she is hidden by giganto-Harris. Dave harnesses up gangly Santa's Little Helper-like dog, Lucky!


Look at the lovely trails! Two days later I went down and didn't get further than .5km, it was already all overflow! Whew. We just made it. No more fun river runs till next winter... :(

And here's a wee video of Dave going through overflow. I tried to get Heather too, but we can blame SADIE for lunging forward and almost knocking me off my feet. Ah well, at least she's enthusiastic!