Today; Musher’s Malc, Graham, Betan, Tim, James, Jenny and I all ventured to the local lake with six to eight dog teams, a 30km round trip from the Axhandle Mountain dog yard.
Besides the breathtaking scenery and venturing onto the lake with your dogs, the trail back gave me a great opportunity to practice passing (overtaking). First I had my team pass Betan & Tim, then Graham and I played cat and Mouse… all went very well. Once back near the dog yard, I continued on with the 27km trail to get some miles on the dogs. We did 57km in all, which a good 15km of that involved breaking trail. All good experience for me and the dogs.

Picture by Graham Kent

Graham’s team and mine practicing overtaking and running together for photo shoot :o)

Many thanks to all the Mushers mentioned above for great and successful day...

1/2/2008 7:45:59 PM UTC    Comments [0] 

Happy new year from us and all the team at Axhandle Mountain.

Have a great year and season... happy trails :o)

1/1/2008 4:47:09 PM UTC    Comments [0] 

Team 'A' 54km in total today... 6c below and calm...

String working too hard as usual (wheel right)

12/29/2007 5:27:22 PM UTC    Comments [0] 

Chrome

Tasha

Ripley & Risk

12/28/2007 5:31:56 PM UTC    Comments [0] 

Axhandle Mountain kennel

12/27/2007 7:09:01 PM UTC    Comments [0] 

Malc setting off with team 'B' on one of his two 12km training runs...

I set off laters with team ‘A’ on two-27km runs… which included one night run… and what a fantastic feeling it is, to run your dogs on snow under the rising of a full moon under calm weather conditions. Just you, your dogs and the great vast snowed covered wilderness... a feeling that I can only describe as amazing while fearful and awe-inspiring... many thanks Graham.

12/26/2007 6:28:44 PM UTC    Comments [0] 

Merry Christmas from us and all our dogs... have a fantastic day.

Dogs and Mushers rest day :o)

12/25/2007 2:45:49 PM UTC    Comments [0] 

Base Camp (Axhandle Mountain dog yard cabin)

Beautiful sunrise…

Our dogs... resting...

Axhandle Mountain Puppies...

On the trail... 30km today...

12/23/2007 7:02:21 PM UTC    Comments [0] 

Arrived at Graham Kent's kennel (Axhandle Mountain) in Sweden safe, Sound and tired around 3pm... 1700 miles is a long drive :o)

12/17/2007 6:50:32 PM UTC    Comments [0]