My First “Real” Mushing Experience: Looking Back
Jul 30th 2008wolfmoonsleddogSoutheast
Location: Northwest GA
Time - 6:49pm
Temperature: 89 degrees F
Conditions: Cloudy, hot, humid
Forecast: Chance of thunderstorms today and tomorrow. Highs in the 90s, lows in the 70s
Well, since it is just too darn hot right now, how about some cool pics? I’ve been getting ready for my move to Minnesota next month (wow, is it really that soon?) and I was looking through some of my old pictures from upstate New York in March 2002.
That was when I traveled farther North than I had ever been - to Redfield, NY and the Tug Hill plateau. I had been doing some cart a minor sled work with Aspen back home but I had never really done any “real” mushing until I went to that area of New York between the Adirondacks and Lake Ontario. Here are some pictures from then.
The Tug Hill Plateau gets feet of lake effect snow off Lake Ontario. As an example, the below picture was taken in the exact same location only two days after the above picture was taken.
Snowshoeing in a snowstorm.
Me and Yogi (black dog) at Lake Effect Sled Dog Kennel
Larry Obrist, owner of Lake Effect Kennel, with a doggy friend
A dog runs free through the kennel
Me running my 3-dog team around what I called Dead Man’s Curve (actually tame compared to things I have experienced since then).
Running the dogs through the upstate New York wilds was a wonderful experience and I took so much away from it. I knew then that this really WAS what I wanted to do. To be out on the trail with huskies.
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