Lana with the team.

Training Run #21 - +2 and clear this morning. It was an exciting morning here as we had a our first guest coming to ride on the quad with me. I watered the dogs and then woke Aimee up as she wanted to help hook up even if she couln't ride with me today. The dogs were noisy and excited because they have once again had 2 days off due to the poor trail conditions here. But thanks to my musher friend I now have booties for all the dogs. It was nice to have Lana join me today and I enjoyed teaching her how to harness and hook up the dogs and great to have somone to talk to about the dogs and mushing in general. The trails are a nasty mix of hard crunchy snow and frozen gravel on the roads..not a nice mixture..I only had to bootie one dog near the end of the run but will be putting booties on everyone on Sunday..better to have feet and dogs than no feet and no dogs. Our team today: Thunder and Ochocco in lead, Fox Trot and Lucy in swing, Jazz and Jitterbug and Siboon (by himself) in team and of course Shadow and Prophet in wheel. All in all it was a great day to be out on the trail with good friends and great company.

.....See You On The Trail.......

Stopped for a break to check feet.