Early Spring in Lake Elmore

We have had a early end to the winter here in Lake Elmore this year. March is often the snowiest month of the year for us but this year we didn't have any. What we did have were a lot of forty degree sunny days. Admittedly nice for us human types to be out but a little warm for Siberian Huskies to be pulling sleds through the snow. It's a double whammy for them, not only is it much warmer than they have been used to all winter but the snow is also slushy and soft making it much harder to move the sleds. We packed it all up after the third weekend of March. Now we wait for the rest of the snow to melt and for the mud to dry up.

We have been getting out with the dog scooters a lot. I've been trying to run at least three times a week. No trail runs yet but we have been able to go on the back roads around the area. This is my first year running with the Pawtrekker scooters and I am having a blast with them. I can't wait until the woods dry out enough to do some single track trail running with them.



The other big news this month is that we have a new little one who has come into our lives. We bought a female puppy from Nduring Peace from Ontario, Canada. She has been here just over two weeks now and is really keeping me busy. We are keeping her in the house and crate training her. I hope to have this create a stronger bond between us which will hopefully help to make her more responsive for training. I need a few more good lead dogs to help keep our teams strong. It is very hard to buy lead dogs so this is my attempt at creating one from scratch. So far she is showing a lot of promise. At eleven weeks old she already loves to run, has learned to sit and is 90% house trained. She seems to be a very smart little pup. We have named her Pacem.

I will close for now. Need to get out to the dog yard to start preparing for another scooter run this morning.