Can"t you See Can"t you seeee

Combining work and pleasure our mushing trails just happen to be on the same route as work so we decided to check out the area where we had to turn back last month due to water in the middle of this picture, good news is from the point were we stopped ,the trail on the other side of the deep beaver dam is just awesome clear sailing to the smokey river north end of this picture, from this point to my house is about 45 miles that gives me about a 90 mile run 1 way and ,the picture of the smokey river is where we will head south along this cutline looks promising...........I thank my pilot Andri for helping me scout this section................................................

Just In time

Well started redoing this dogbox on aug 30 we are now 99%complete It was stripped down to bare wood the sanding i had to do thought I would never see the end but it came, then I removed all the locks hinges anything metal buffed it all and applied rust paint and primed the wood surfaces and put two coats of high end paint then i applied waterproff chaulking on all the corners and sealed it with metal trim looks so good I want to just sit back and admire it The smokey River team will be styl'in in 09/10 going down the road.

Are you kidding

Well how a month makes a turn for the better the dogs are doing great the best i have seen out of them .tonight it snowed pretty good,the the dogs could dip for snow ,we have now completed over a 100 miles + if the weather continues it should be a great month.the fall colors are spectacular .Well as you can see the dog box is nearing completion it has been stripped down and re sheeted ,painted ,chalked it is now 100% water proof i gotta pick up a couple more things then it will be ready for doggies ,These spuds are from our garden Glad my wifes a greenthumb I could'nt grow weeds I admit They looks pretty Tasty ,and they were nice Stay tuned.........................

Leader of the PACK

These are 2 of the teams main leaders Waylon the black dog is Partly Blind but that does not seem to bother him as he is always ready to go and is the first to stand at the ready, when I come a calling,he is also the the boss of the Team as he takes no guff from anyone in the Kennel, nor do they test him ,a quick growel and they bow to him. but he is not agressive ,always gets along with the team, loves a good ear scratching .And always leads by example has great work ethlic waylon is one happy dog. He can turn on a dime when i got him, it only took about 3 weeks for him to learn the commands of Gee& Haw.If not for his disability he would be a super sled dog.He has finished every race he has entered,

With Me your in the drivers Seat

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Play ball

This is Tic Toc as you can see she loves to play ball ,but she does not like to share and will go to great lengths to to keep it to her self ,she is going on 4 yrs old is a hard worker loves to please and is very gentle, it is not hard to give her an extra hug or compliment, She knows their time is here and is very excited to start running,she is one of teams main Leaders.

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Wanna Play

Running in the Forest

Aaron and I went out today to find some trails to run on this fall,found a awesome Trail that is about 14 klm one way and where we stopped the he rail continued on ,it has a lot of folage on it so works great at not to sore up some pads ,make for great Running ,have to check out he opposite directon i think t runs toward the river if that is the cases then we should be able to put in a 50mile run one way ,Try and make it out again next weekend stay Tuned ..............

Summers over

Well sept is here the official start of mushing season,what most of us wait for all summer,well maybe not for everyone,but for distance runners the dogs need conditioning for the 60-70 mile night runs ,night being more favorable its a lot cooler for the team.Nows the time i'll start calling my mushing buddys to see how their summer went how many new dogs and so on.what races there going to and what not, so far i have 4 in mind they are Canadian challange , yukon quest 300,2 new races one in th YK and the other in B.C both 200 milers,I am giong across the smokey river looking for more fall training trail for those over nighters.stay tuned...............