On Sunday Inari and I went to see the Junior North American Dogsledding Championships. There were something like 20 competitors ranging in age from 4-16 years. The kids raced with anywhere from 1 to 8 dogs, depending on their skill level. Some of the dogs were really fast and were good sled dogs. Some ran half of the course and then stopped and decided that they'd rather do something else. A couple of the kids were thrown off their sleds into the snow - that's why they wear helmets!
One girl said that her favorite thing about dogsledding was getting to play with her dogs. Most of the kids' favorite dogsledding memories involved getting thrown from their sleds or narrowly missing a tree.
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Had an absolutely miserable bc ski day on Sunday. Two days later it is already starting to seem like a better time then it was. Still I would have rather been watching 4 year olds hurl themselves into snow banks from their dog sleds. Sounds like a blast!
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