We finally decided on a trail we could get the pups out on their first run.  Of course, because it was going to be a short run, we both decided on some questionable leaders just to try them out and we should have stuck with the old pros.  Jeremy tried out Lara, our 10 month old we got this fall, and I tried out a dog we used to run in lead a while back, but haven't during the last two seasons or so.  Both bad decisions.  The dog I used, Traveler, refreshed our memories that he does not hold the line out when hooking up and caused headaches right from the start, and Lara is just not mature enough to do the job yet, but we both think she will some day, as she does have good moments where she's focused and fast, but she will get distracted every so often.  She did do a better job than Traveler at holding the line at hookup.  We didn't get the photos I had hoped for because of all the chaos, but the pups I ran-Rain and Breeze, did an excellent job and ran nice and pulled the whole 2.4 miles.  Jeremy said that Storm did excellent, but it took Cloud a bit longer to figure it out.  She pulled her head out of her collar right after the start, so that had to be dealt with, but after that, things went better.

Breeze

Cloud

Rain

Storm

We also took Truk, the dark dog here, out for this short run.  He's 13, almost 14 years old and mostly retired, but did well on this little jaunt.  That's Salt next to him.

Rain and Breeze at the end of the run.  Tired pups!

That was on Saturday.  On Sunday, we decided to take a couple teams, minus the pups, out for a longer run, 27 miles.  Autumn decided that she wanted to ride along so the three of us went out for a late afternoon, early evening run.

Almost full moon.