
This post is inspired by http://www.furaffinity.net/view/9611553/
A couple years ago
bfoxxe and I trekked up north to the Gunflint Lodge with some friends (human and canine) for Christmas. Sadly, there were few ski trails open for skijoring in the area, but I was given access to the sled dog trail when the lodge wasn't using it. This photo shows Gypsy (left) and Wizard (right) pulling me through the snow-covered spruce at the top of the hill overlooking Gunflint Lake and the lodge (and Canada on the other side). It was quite fun zipping through the tight tunnel of branches along the trail, pulled by a couple of very energetic huskies!
A couple years ago

Category Photography / Animal related (non-anthro)
Species Husky
Size 600 x 800px
File Size 189 kB
It was challenging conditions to ski in, but we did have fun, definitely! The first half of our trip was on a snowshoe trail, which was too steep and with too-sharp curves to work well for going husky-speed. The second half on the dogsled trail was great except for the steep and long hill at the beginning. It was so heavily packed by dogs that it was like skiing in a water slide made of snow -- impossible to do a proper herring-bone stance to keep from sliding backwards down the hill. (And no, even two energetic huskies weren't going to pull me up THAT hill on their own.) Coming down that hill found me walking too -- because of the gulley, I couldn't do a proper snow-plow, so the straight run would have seen me speeding past the dogs, then dragging them behind me to the bottom.
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