With the end of last week being a couple of weeks after the CB300 and a couple of weeks before the Denali Doubles, the training schedule called for the dogs to have a good, long workout in the hills. As you know, however, we have had practically no snow here in Two Rivers and the the trails are so hard packed that they are not good for the dogs’ feet. So, Allen and Aliy decided to head back up to the White Mountains for an 80-mile training run on the nice, soft, snowy trails there.
As you will see in Aliy’s introduction to this video, we did get a couple of inches of snow the night before, but that wasn’t enough to change the plan. After she welcomes you to the day, Aliy walks into the dog yard to give the dogs a nice wake up call. Then, you’ll be out on the trail to see how it’s not only the dogs who work hard on their training runs. Your day ends with a fantastic sunset, though the teams continue to run late into the night and don’t return to the Kennel until the wee hours of the next morning!
Awesome footage! The dogs actually make climbing those hills look easy! Impressive!!
Wow love the video.Almost as much snow we have here in Southern Alberta.Dogs look great.Enjoyed your video and thanks for your page here.
Beautiful video! This soo makes me want to come to Alaska!
I also wanted to say that I got the 2010 Iditarod calendar, and Aliy's team is December! Its her leaving Takotna…can't quite tell who is in the forefront of the pic…maybe Betsy and one of the spice girls…