Yesterday Michal and Jörg went out to open the trail for the sled and today we stood eventually on it :))))) It was good timing for our guests Michelle and Michal, it was their last day. So they could have a ride on the sled before they left us.
Michal the trailbreaker ;)
On the sled :))))
Jörg and Michal with their team
Fränk and Tchmil in lead
A happy Michelle on the sled :)))
Sonntag, 28. Oktober 2012
Today was a beautyful day. Very cold in the night and bright sunshine the whole day :))))) That invited us to a lot of activities.
Michelle was trying the snowmashine, btw she is only 10 years old, and very light and small.
Then Michelle and Jörg went out to make a few parts of the trail :))
The dogs needed also some training!
Michelle is alsways with us, here harnessing the dogs.
And this time it´s no joke :)) So we went out to set the markers for the sledtrail over the lake. We had some good help from Michal and his doughter Michelle.
Jörg was drilling a whole
Then we set the markers
Michelle thought that Jörg did it not good enough and took the drill;)
...gets better and better. This night we had about -9 degrees and so Tobi and I were further on the lake. It was a lot of fun ad tomorrow we try do go over the whole lake ;)))
Today Susan and I did our first steps on the frozen lake ;)))) It´s always exciting when it´s possible to do that first steps. The ice was holding even if the feeling was not that good to go there. Tomorrow it will be much better and then I will send Tobi, the son of my friend on the ice ;) Will see if he is that brave to do it ;))
Susen was the first...
...and I was following
Donnerstag, 18. Oktober 2012
We got a new doghandler ;))
No, not really. I have a friend visiting me with her 13 year old son. We have a lot of fun and Tobi with the ATV, too. It was snowing yesterday so the training seems nearly like wintertraining. Hopefully we get some colder days now that the lake is save soon and we can take the sleds :))
Donnerstag, 11. Oktober 2012
And here is the Film Uschi took in the same time like me. Have a look at my nice hat, I´m sure I could make it in every James Bond film with that as the evil russian agent...
Didn´t wrote that much the last time, but it happens not that much either...We train the dogs, looking all day at the weather forecast and hoping that the cold and snow will come soon :) Training is going good, all 16 dogs are in good mood and we, too. With the weather forecast it´s like usual, one day they promise cold for next week, the other day they promise warm for next week. So normally it´s senseless to look there, but we never give up. But this morning we had the first little ice on our lake :))) So at least the water in the lake is cold enough that it could freeze if it would become colder...
The last days Uschi and Steffen were at our trainingsrounds with their dogs and that was a good training for both of us. We could train a bit head-on-passing and even the youngsters did it in a fine matter. Below you see a small video from different training runs. I lough in the end of the film because I was filming and Uschi was filming the same time, too ;)
The first drawing of the Finnmarkslopet startlist is done. I got the bibnumber 21. Not the worst and if you think that a few always withdraw, I advance maybe a few places ;)
