Sledding with Friends

  The little virus that we had in the dogyard seems to have cleared up, so we are back to running dogs.  Marenisco got a couple of inches of snow on Christmas Eve, so the trails are in pretty good shape, not that they weren't in okay shape before, but the new snow makes them nicer and, hopefully not just because the holidays kept people too busy to drive their trucks out in the middle of the woods, traffic has been down on the trails.
  Jeremy and I did a nice 19 or so mile run on Christmas Day, and our friend Matt had called and said that him and his daughter would like to hit the trails with us today, so we loaded up fairly early and headed up to meet them in Marenisco so we could show off the trails we love so much, as they'd never been over there.

Before hookup

 

 

Dude and Pinstripe getting anxious to go.

Almost ready...it was pretty cool hooking up four teams.

Leaders Thunder and Aspen.

Leaders Scout and Cherry.

I took up the rear-Matt was ahead of me, then his daughter, then Jeremy.

  Unfortunately, Jeremy's team seemed to "poop out" early on in the run, and we ended up cutting it short, only doing about 10 miles.  The temps were in the mid to upper 30's, which may have had something to do with it, or maybe they just weren't ready today, yesterdays run was a later one, finished about 4:30 pm, so maybe they were still feeling it this morning, or maybe it just wasn't a good day, it happens.  Training has not been ideal this year, and our miles aren't quite where we had envisioned them being.  The weather is so weird this year and we could really use snow and colder temps.  42 degrees on December 26 just seems so wrong!  What little snow we have is deteriorating in this weather.  We have ground showing in our yard, luckily Marenisco has a few more inches than we do, but we really need things to change soon!
  All in all, with good company and healthy dogs, it was a good time.  We really enjoy getting to train with and spend some time with other dog sledding enthusiasts, and will hopefully get to do it again soon.  Maybe next time the weather will be more in our favor.