Hello,
Since the last few wrinkles dog sled extra!
A return to coal lake cabin, a small drive thirty miles but with good elevation.
A quick tour of the evening an hour ... Just for fun.
A drive an hour and another 40 km with a team of Yukon Quest.
Branch Coal Lake:
Last Sunday, I got an appointment with both two and Guillaume Pierre handleurs has to go and climb a coal lake history to courrir dogs and eat a hot dog in a nice little trapper's cabin!
Depart 11 am, the weather is perfect: -25 ° C sun ... We put, month eight dogs, Alex and Maxine six each, and come join William at his cabin on the edge of Fish Lake. We then climb all the four through the mountains through winding trails, narrow which makes us work a little technique to avoid the trees. Maxim is his second run sleigh of his life. A little strong at first but he learned quickly! Follows a long fitted, or you feel the lack of training dogs. With eight dogs is still okay but the other six must skate for a while. William when he was ten and has trained more ... We are reviewing not happened before at the hut.
The landscape is sublime ... Traces of grouse here and there, here a wolf ran along the track a few hundred meters to see the footprints ...
Just before arriving, a little bit of downhill fun to learn to use the brakes ... but nothing worse.
At the cabin, snack Arctic char and soup for the dogs and a hot dog for us. When I said that dogs eat better than their owners! Two or three hours of poses and we leave to the night. Back even slower than in the morning, the dogs really miss drive. We'll have to remedy it quickly! Then beautiful descent through the forest without any serious incidents. We finished with two dogs in the sled as they are exhausted ...
Back to kennel to 10pm ... Nearly three times as long to go back to the normal. Training, training, training, ... We will replay but more slowly and assiduously especially ... For dogs that courrrent a bit at the end of winter !
Tuesday evening: Little Lake Jackson to ride!
Having given Monday off the dogs, we are left with a small maxim for a good hour ride towards Lake Jackson. Check the kennel with six dogs each. Everything goes well until the arrival on the Fish Lake Road. There are a small bump sled jump, nothing worse when expected but surprising when you look elsewhere. That is what has happened maxim through one magnificent flight plannersur road, a sledge him on the other side ... Luckily, I was ahead! I hear him yelling something, look back and see him running behind his sled. I immediately understood that it is happened. A few seconds later, heads of his dogs caught up with me. It is imperative that I manage to catch them or risk seeing his team go on ... km I veered towards the dogs head, but these idiots are deported as well and as I go toward them, the whole course on an icy road an average of good 20en km / h. No right to a sudden movement that I shod fall too. After a while I find myself hanging by the left hand in my sled, the left foot on the pad right, right foot slipped on the road and hand Right seeking in vain to catch any line! by the time my sled is more than one pad, the second support being made by my right foot on the road. I not lead off. I have no right to make mistakes, or fall, or let slip the other team! Especially that was empty, it goes much faster than me. I finally arrive at the down side coinser cons, catch the dog tug lines swings and stop everybody. I secure my first sled, two anchors deeply planted in the snow and the frozen sled turned over and then jump on another sled before doing the same thing. We have traveled no less than 700 m in this chase. The rest
the run goes on without stories, some fun moments in sharp turns at over 90 ° but nothing special.
Saturday, the first run of my life to lead a team who will do the Yukon Quest!
Jocelyne, a friend who lives in me sky high asking to train the rest of his dog team while she made a qualifying race in Alaska. Program 3 to run in 5 days, a good hour, and two of a 40 km ENE for about 3 hours.
The goal is not to lose their hard training gained during the long months of training Intensive course without hurting these dogs are so precious!
Retrouvaille with the dogs, running different properties from those of Peter and all that goes with (booties ,...).
Popeyes and Raven
Sammie and June
Dewalt Sawrenko
Once harnessed, the dogs rest quietly up to await the order of departure. Then press the brakes and keep the speed of 8 miles per hour tonight 13 km / h, I saw no GPS nose. But it means running to a slow trot. Both the downhill and uphill. It's harder to hold on steep descents! Even
trail that Tuesday evening, except that in turn was 110 ° became a highway has two levels (stepped laterally) with a good meter of difference ... I eSite between the right and the left (passing over the bump on the road or normal), but by the time I desides I took the middle ... I have never seen it! the sled takes off a whole with me over (I was not more quickly), rotated 90 degrees to the side and it fell flat, the sled and me ... I spike a lot, was about 10m and then drag it all! But houaaaaa theft! I was not expecting it, I did the same trail last Tuesday and the turn was impecable. I do not know is that it happened! We have told by looking at loan that people had done as a springboard to jump into snow machine??
U-turn in the middle of Jackson Lake on a trail the width of the sled, saying twice Ha ... not a tangle of crooked nothing ... Heads of good dogs! Back
without salient features!
Sunday, Mountain Tower Mac fence-back loop:
Even trail for the race two weeks ago, except that the departure and arrival so are different. Always with the dogs Jocelyne.
The time has snow, the temperature a bit warm (-10 ° C), but perfect conditions for snow sports! Nothing special to tell, just a few photos and video for fun!
forty km for about 3 hours or 13 km / h. At random is not bad!
forty km for about 3 hours or 13 km / h. At random is not bad!
Matthew
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