Dryland Videos

[Christian]

This last weekend I went to a mushing weekend in La Pine Oregon, and here are some videos I shot of all the teams leaving the shoot, and me on the cart. Hope you like them! (they do get bumpy at times. lol)

http://youtube.com/profile_videos?user=hhuskies26

[B Terry]

interesting to see how it is done in other places, they seem to mostly trot? or is it too bumpy to get video when they go faster, was it a quad they were pulling? I saw a rig parked up but different to ours here, quite a weight per dog? realy seem to be getting their backs in to it well, how far? looked to come in well, would realy like to see more everyone .

[Christian]

Yep, mostly a trot at about 10-11 mph. When we come in though we get them up to running speed, as well as certain points on the trail.

We were running an 8 dog team, and the weight including the rig and us was about 500 lbs.

As for the other mushers, yes, some were using ATVs, which are quite heavy too. We did a 7 mile run, and then a 3.5 mile run; I know others did more or even less. There were about 45 mushers and their teams at this event.

[siberianbrat]

Since we're sharing videos, here's a series of three short clips I took while running six sibes on a Fritz-Dyck TOM cart (I was using the movie option on my digital camera and so I did not have much control over the settings. And I was holding the camera with one hand while holding on to the steering bar with the other --- in two of the videos, I drop the camera, which might make you think for a second that we had a crash):

http://s32.photobucket.com/albums/d27/r ... 0_3393.flv

http://s32.photobucket.com/albums/d27/r ... 0_3394.flv

http://s32.photobucket.com/albums/d27/r ... 0_3395.flv

And here's a dogscootering video I took with my two siberian brats (they weren't necklined and aren't as well-behaved as they should be when running in harness):

http://s32.photobucket.com/albums/d27/r ... 28_ed5.flv

Rancy

[adventuresource]

Funny I've been doing this for 7 years already. Any dog can learn to pull a scooter trust me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO-QjIdl7vE

[Christian]

I think scooters are an awesome way to get new people into the sport of mushing - much less intimidating than a bike. By the way, thanks for posting that video. The Urban Mushers from Southern California are a really good group of people. Very nice. I think some of them are on the boards here too.