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dogsledding
adventures
in minnesota
THINK SNOW! |
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training mazzy to pull, summer 2001 |
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So here I am -- finally living in Minnesota, dreaming of dogsledding through the upcoming winter, and trying to keep one
very active puppy happy. It seemed the right time to begin pull-training Mazzy. I hooked up a small log to his
harness and off we went. Mazzy was a natural, straining to run at full speed. I've since learned that pull-training
is best done at a slower pace, as the initial focus should be on the pulling, not the speed. Speed will always come
later. But fortunately dogs are resilient to the errors of their clueless trainers and things turned out ok. |
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our first sled run on snow, january 2002
Here we are at our first attempt at using the sled. Not too bad for a first try. Jasper seemed to know what to
do without much prompting and the pull-training with Mazzy really paid off now. I was very proud of both my boys
for keeping their tuglines tight the whole time. |
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january/february 2003
We finally received a major snowfall this winter -- 15" or so. We're trying to make the best of it but some warm weather
since then (plus the snowmobiles) have pretty much wrecked the trails. I'm buying a wheeled-cart in the spring. |
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These were taken at Elm Creek Reserve. Not the best condition trail in the world, but it is the closest one. |
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These next pictures were taken at the Gateway Trail, near White Bear Lake, Minnesota. I just love the sequence
of the first four pictures where Mazzy and Cirrus get increasingly more excited about wanting to run. |
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These last pictures were taken on what may be our last run of the season. Jasper and Tess did very
well at Crow-Hassan Reserve. |
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north dakota, november 2003
Helen and Bob Newman were kind enough to invite some Sammy people to run their trails in North Dakota. We earned our first
Working Samoyed points that weekend on a five-mile carting run on prairie roads through vast farm fields. Thanks for the photos
Bob, Helen, and Scott!
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