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Getting some well-earned 'end of run' treats after a fast & fun day on the trails!

"You have our complete attention! Hand them out!" says the focused & happy trio.

We had a blast skijoring around the trails in Swan Valley with the dog sled teams from Good Times Adventures this morning. We saw and ran behind many teams but never got close enough for today's photos to really show the flirting fun. All the teams were very clear to Zorro, Jack, Rudy and I but they were just a tad too far away to come out clear in our snapshots. Oh well, we'll show the day's fun as best we can.

Here's a ridiculously camouflaged team just over the snowbank in front of us. If you draw a line from Rudy's back right hindquarter, the line would intersect one of the sled dogs with the dog sled a smidget behind that. Oh well, we saw & watched them closely!

"Too camouflaged for the camera but not for our eyes!" says the sled
dog watching trio.

Here we go again with an 8 dog team clear to us on the trail ahead but barely visible in the clip.

Draw a line up from Rudy's left cheek and that line would intersect the musher behind
his 8 dog team on the trail ahead. Again, we all saw them CLEARLY!!!

One more time and still too far for a good photo... Start in between Jack & Rudy and draw a line up the trail and it would intersect the musher and team in front of us.

Perfectly clear to me and my partners but just a bit too far to come
out clear in a shrunk down photo :(

Today's video clip is us having fun playing "dog sled chase". Watch closely for the following. The team ahead of us on the trail is visible for about the first 5 seconds (watch for the movement in front of us). Then, after a few curves in the trail, you can see the musher ahead of us about 22 seconds in before he disappears around another bend. Then at about 42 seconds in and the team appears ahead of us again for a short straightaway. Note that we are closer to the team at 42 seconds than at the start - we are gaining on them :) But, after about 15 seconds of gaining, the team turns off the trail onto one of the side trails. I know this side trail is too narrow to follow them and pass, so I gently slow us to a stop at the point where the team disappeared.

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Ok, so the dog teams did not come out too clear in today's photos; but the silly signage did :)

"Got it - CAUTION, you better HANG ON back there!" that is the sled
dog interpretation of a CAUTION sign.

Once you are past the sign, it does not exist any more, right?

Maybe we went slow before the sign, maybe we didn't. But we are past
it now so FLOOR IT!

A fun day chasing and flirting with the dog sled teams on the trails but not the best footage. But, some great footage of unnecessary (and ignored) signage: 6.5 miles traveled with 500 feet of elevation climbed and a top speed of 21 MPH.

2019/2020 Season to Date: 72 days on the trails covering 497.0 miles with 46,900 feet of elevation climbed.