hello everyone

  Well we are back in the training mode and the dogs are moving great. The dogs are ready to race. The trail is good. It has taken some work but it is the best it has been this year. The teams are divided into three eight dog teams. The first two teams are Ben and Rachel's racing teams. The third team is running with some of the older dogs in it with some of next years dogs. We will be adding some more younger dogs so we may be running 4 or 5 teams soon. Right now the Gps is saying that the average is moving up to 18 mph. This is what we are looking for. Now that the  trail is fast and the dogs are ready for the speeds Ben and  Rachel will see the slower ones. It is looking right now that they are all lookin really good !  The worst thing is there is no races in  the Yukon to go to ! This is a bad year. We have not heard about three races and whether they will be on this yr. or not. It doesn't seem so.

  This is becoming the biggest problem here in the Yukon. There is one new race that is more of a get together for friends than a race. The rules are different than anywhere we have been and the age grouping for kids and distances they race is not like anything we have seen. So really it doesn't match any other races we would train for or go to.  The few races that are established in the Yukon are dying out.  So unless we work and put on a race for Ben and Rachel to go to there isn't much going on. 

  We do enjoy going to Alaska to race. It is just becoming more and more expensive every year. I don't know what will happen in the future. It is hard to keep sled dogs when there is no races to go to. It just takes allot of traveling to and from different areas of Canada and Alaska. 

  The dogs are ready and we are ready to go and race ..........somewhere.  We look forward to 

the next race. Bye 4 now .