03/06/2025
Our season is wrapping up!
The month of March is typically reserved for community educational programs.
December and January we offer rides. This season we gave 181 folks rides. That's about 100 miles my amazing dogs traveled just giving rides. We had guests locally and as far away as Australia, Spain and Africa! Lots of hugs, fist bumps, squeals, singing, giggling and smiles.
Best moments for me:
1. Very loud, very big, very boisterous adult man with mental and physical disabilities yelling at the very very top of his lungs MUSH ! The sled dogs were very concerned until I had to yell equally as loud MUSH GOOD DOGS over and over so they knew our guest was happy. So I can imagine what our neighbors though was happening.
2. 9 year old girl driving her own team with full confidence and control as a veteran professional musher. That kid is going places and I'm so proud to know my dogs are a small part of her huge life.
3. My handler Kerry catapulting herself onto the back of my moving sled, break neck speed, just for the fun of going sledding. No fear, just Olympic athlete abilities. No joke...she launched onto the back of the sled runners while I was flying by at maybe 12mph. What would have happened if she missed her landing? I don't want to think about it. The sled runners are more narrow than skis, she was on icey snow, all I can assume was her brain was partially frozen from helping me all day. Her full time job is farming. My takeaway: farmers really are secret ninjas.
