Today I was out with the dogs for a long run. It was the first time this season that we could drive on the river. I really like that part of the trail.

Tjapps Quest 2012 ;)

Like everybody knows we had plans to go to the Troms Quest this weekend. But it was to less snow, so it was cancelled. So we decided that I drive with 12 dogs the 100 km to Tjappsåive. There are living Heike and Michi with their dogs, they drive a racing and tourist kennel. They have a beautyful trailsystem and Christina and I met there. So we did our own Tjapps Quest, we drove the dogs like on a race, coming into a checkpoint, staying there on straw a few hours and then driving further. Many thanks to Heike and Michi that we could use their trailsystem and the support in the checkpoint. Heike made even a whole in the lake that we could get water for the dogs!

We drove the dogs during the day...
...and during the night...

...on lakes...

...and in the woods. Short said, it was beautyful :)))

A movie from today. Sorry for the poor quality inbetween, I had cold hands (-19 degrees), balanced the camera on my glove to come with the other hand into the other glove. It was not that easy. Btw, there will be no results from Tjapps Quest, it was only one competitor in every class ;)))

After many trainings with trailbreaking I had the joy to ride our dogs in sunshine and with a nice trail today :) I hooked up all 15 adult dogs for a long run. It was really fun to see the pace of the dogs and how eager they worked.

Sunshine, a good trail and eager dogs - can you ask for more?
And it was not that cold eather, only -10 degrees :)))



Here again a small video ;)

There was only one sad thing the last days. The Troms Quest is cancelled because of to less snow :((( Not only that we missed that as a good training, I had for the first time in my life bib-number 1...

Trailbreaking - again

Today the dogs had a tough job to break the trail. Jörg opened it with the Snowmobile yesterday, but we had hard wind and so all trail was gone and blowing in the wind again. But I was not alone today. The Austria girl Christina who lives 100 km from us joined me and trained her dogs together with me. . My team at a better part of the trail.

Christina with her team. Guess who is the passenger in her sled?
Susan of course! She had full control over everything and joined the ride in Christinas sled :)



Christina did a small film. here was absolutely no trail left and the dogs were partly up to the ears in the snow - who wonders, we have so small dogs...