Sky Runner Kennel

Hello Everybody,

Sorry I haven’t been up to date on the posts. Hoping to start with more consistent posts again. As you can tell I have changed it from OneDog Blog to Sky Runner Kennel. With only two dogs, we may be a micro kennel, but it’s a step-up from one dog.

In the last month or two a lot has happened. The biggest news is that I’m going to Alaska from February 27 to March 5 to watch the start of the Iditarod. It should be awesome. My brother (lives in Anchorage, AK) takes a snowmobile out to the first checkpoint (Skewentna) to watch all of the teams go by.

On January 19 and 20 we went to a sleddog race in Laramie, WY. The WyColo race is great with long snowmobile trails heading through the Medicine Bow National Forest. I didn’t race but got to handle for two friends/mentors, Don Herr and Mike Sullivan. I also bought a Risdon 3-Stanchion for Don (solved the sled problem)! On both Saturday and Sunday I took the sled out after the race was over with a four dog team of Sky and 3 of Mikes dogs (Charlie, Bones, and Trisha). We went about 3 miles both days and had a blast. Sky held the line out great and was a pretty good leader.

So far I’ve taken the sled out twice with Sky and Elmo since the race. Elmo is now up to 99 miles and Sky is up to 280 miles. I’m hoping to get up to 500 miles by the end of the season on Sky and possibly 200 miles on Elmo (Elmo runs with us about half of the time because of his age).

Dillon

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