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Image in Yukon Quest
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Not really, but wow, does this look like her, down to the big ears and long pointy snoot: http://www.yukonquest.com/servlet/vi...o?photoId=1690 . I bet that dog's not quite as evil. On Friday I took the dogs up to Connecticut Hill to do some sledding. We'd gone a couple of miles and I was getting kind of cold (it was about 10F), so I stopped the team to zip up my parka. I was standing with one foot on the brake and the other on the ground, instead of on the runner, and Image suddenly pulled the dogs forward and took off, leaving me standing there. I took off after them but they cruise along at about 12mph, and, well, I don't. I kept calling them and Emmett kept looking back but the others just forged on ahead and I watched them disappear down the forest service road. I know my way around up there pretty well and I knew that it was a very long downhill that ended in a T, where going to the left will take you onto real roads and towards some farms and turning to the right will take you even further downhill to a gnarly creek crossing inhabited by a lot of deer and other wildlife. I followed their tracks for several miles, which gave me plenty of time to construct all sorts of terrible scenarios. (And Carhartt "Arctic" bibs? More like "Pennsylvania"). So I was going further and further down the hill and getting more and more upset about what might be happening to the dogs. I finally reached the last descent to the T and as I came over a little crest I saw the dogs stretched out in the snow right there, watching me walk down the hill. No injuries, no tangles. I have never, ever been that relieved about anything. I turned them around and we had to head back up the hill. On the way up we were passed by a couple of snowmobiles. I don't know what they would have done if they'd found the dogs; I'd hope they'd snub them to a tree and go look for their human, but you never know. We finally made it back to the truck as the sun was starting to set, and I have never seen such exhausted dogs. They say you're not really a musher until you've lost your team, but I don't feel like a musher, I feel like an idiot. (A grateful idiot.) -- Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis - All you need to know about Social Security "reform": Your in-laws are going to have to live with you |
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