skijoring
Despite living the snow for a while now, none of us have been particularly interested in cross country skiing. If you’ve been watching the Olympics, you may have noticed that cross country is the only sport where the competitors collapse en masse at the finish line. We’ve decided there is a perfectly good ski lift just a few miles down the road.
Today was a Dog Day’s of Winter thing in town and it included skikjøring. This looks like fun. For you and your dogs.
There were 3 different races. One dog skijoring. Two dog skijoring. And… you know.
We were surprised to see the variety of dogs out here. Hounds seemed to be a good choice and possibly obeyed the best. Some were hunting dogs. Others were Alaskan hounds. Plenty were just mutts. According to one guy, “If you’ve got some dogs in the backyard, just strap ’em on and get going.” This is sport we like.
I don’t know how Karma was about cold weather and/or physical labor. However, I do know that my late dog Tag would have looked at me like I was a freaking idiot and returned to the warmth of the fire if I tried to get him to do that. Same with our current dog Max. Guess I didn’t raise ’em right!
Karma would pull me down the sidewalk on my longboard and loved it. She loved the snow too, so skijoring would have been automatic.
News leaders, we are. The next day, Slate wrote an article about it.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/five_ring_circus/2014/02/18/skijoring_horse_drawn_ski_racing_was_almost_an_olympic_sport.html