Thursday, June 9, 2011

Still Pulling


I had to check the calendar when we got home from ski-joring Sunday. It really is June and I think this should be the off-season or the free run season. Bryan and Kim seem to have different thoughts. The Beartooth Pass has recorded snowpack. The road department has been unable to get the road open so it is still ski-joring season.

Please, notice my line is tight! I do pull! But I am not a sled dog.

We did get to do a little free running. 



Saturday, June 4, 2011

We're Back

Willow here. I don't know if we have enough followers to have anyone miss us, but Kim was on special assignment from the middle of January until yesterday. She was working with an amazing group of Special Education Teachers. They did 15 reading trainings in 90 days. That might not sound like an accomplishment but you have to times that by six groups. 15 x 6 = 90 3hr trainings. Kim loved every minute of it but it was pretty intense. She logged the fewest ski days in 10 years, couldn't run 3 miles if a bear was chasing her, and hasn't blog a thing. The sled dogs and I have given her a bit of a break, but now it is time for her to get back on track.

The sled dogs and I had a good season, with some ups and downs. A down was the lost of our friend Walla Walla "sled dog". Walla really started the whole sled dog obsession at the Busch house.  She was an amazing sled dog. We all miss her.
Walla was such an amazing sled dog, Bryan decided it would take two dogs to fill her harness. Bryan went to the UP and brought home Emmie and Sprout.
Emmie adjusting to house living.
Sprout
The TEAM after their first run and a very happy Bry.
Ski-joring West Fork Road
Beartooth Pass in the Winter
Our trip to the "Top of the World"
Ice fall on the WY side of the Beartooth Pass

Unfortunately (or fortunately) all good things have to come to an end.
Spring has been long, wet, and sloppy.
Sled dogs are NOT rain dogs so we all have spent a lot time in the house.
We have also went hiking at our favorite spot, "Sled Dog Canyons".
It was hot!
Handsome!

Bryan and his "babies"
See Kim was there.
I need a break!