Melinda: Mushing in Ontario

http://www.brocknews.ca/jan28winterfunday.htm

In the video, that Maybe's dam in the right swing spot on the BC
team.

--
--Matt. Rocky's a Dog.

In article ,
Rocky wrote:
>In the video, that Maybe's dam in the right swing spot on the BC
>team.

Well, that's pretty awesome. Does that tempt you at all?

Brockville is actually just a few hours by car from here,
and I drive by it to get to Ottawa. There's a fair amount
of recreational purebred sledding in that area, and that's
not the only border collie team in eastern Ontario. They
travel in caravans to dogsled events around the northeastern
US and eastern Canada and camp together. I happened to camp
next to a bunch of them at the Northern New England Sleddog
Fair last year and liked them a lot. There are dryland
races on the Sunday of that fair and after her run I saw one
of them walking back out on the trail. I asked her if she'd
dropped something and she said one of her dogs had pooped
and she was going to go find it, and a bunch of people
looked at her as if she'd sprouted a second head. Anyway,
it would be cool if Maybe's breeder showed up for that sort
of thing.

Here, it's raining, which is completely insane, and over the
past few days I've gotten email saying three more races have
been cancelled because of the lack of snow. One of those is
in Marmora, so it's good that the festival at the Mac
Johnson Area took place before the snow washed away.

Do you know if she's planning on coming down to NY for the
Tug Hill races? It's just about two hours from Brockville.
--
Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis - shore.RemoveThis@panix.com

Prouder than ever to be a member of the reality-based community