Wow, big difference between this year and last year at this time! Looking back, temps. were in the 50's-60's last year and our sledding season was over already. This year it just keeps snowing and snowing! Temps. have been in the upper 20's for the highs and it's been great sledding weather.
We took a couple eight dog teams out for a run in Marenisco yesterday. No one had been out on the trails since it started snowing during this latest snow storm and there was eight to twelve inches of snow to break trail in for 15 miles of a 22 mile run. It snowed almost the whole time we were out, too! It was a LONG, slow run and I actually ended up leading for the last couple miles because Jeremy's leaders were kind of burnt out from all the trail breaking they had done. In the end, all the dogs did really well, we had no injuries or strains and they all were happy and ate and drank well after, so no complaints here. We will be happy if we can stay on sleds till April!
Miles and miles of fresh, unbroken trail...
This is the first part of the snowmobile trail-apparently not being groomed and maybe one sled had been on it since the fresh snow, so not much better than unbroken trail.
Finally, a stretch of groomed snowmobile trail! But of course, it was still snowing...
and then snowing harder...
Snow dogs!
The wind was blowing, too, so you can't hear what I'm saying in this clip, but I was trying to get shots of Jeremy's leaders plowing through the fresh snow:
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