After many things conspiring to keep the dogs miserable in the kennel (and poor Emma pretty miserable too) we finally get an overall break. Today we met the usual local folk at Hill for the Christmas Mush. Not sure what was so Christmas-y about it besides a few bad holiday decorations!!! But it was great to get out with the dogs, get a break from Emma, know Emma was recovered from being sick and to have great cold weather to boot. The dogs did wonderfully, perfect passing, hard pulling, good behavior. I bumped little Blossom up for a trial on the A team and she worked very well. She was a little overdone afterwards, tired and a little sick to her tummy. I chalk that up to her not being as fit since the B team is not getting out much at all.
Someone told me today that the ban on mushing at Profile Falls/Shaw Cove on weekends before noon has been listed. Hurray!
Today we saw many old friends. I find it interesting that nearly everyone has moved to large ATV's. I love my little ATV and it is a perfect fit for my 10-dog A team. A little heavy for my older dogs (also a 10 dog team). Ironically I am contemplating swapping out my sweet little honda 250 for my husbands beast honda 450. I think there is at least at 200 pound weight difference. What I am thinking of doing is changing my mind set from two 10-dog teams to 4 five-dog units. Swapping out units, running 3 units at a time (15-dog team) I think all the dogs would get on average 3 runs a week if I myself ran 4 times. It wont be as fun, it will be a lot more stressful and limiting, but if the conditions hold like they are now I can get more miles on more dogs.
