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We went to Canmore, for the International Dog sled Championships. It was held at the Nordic center, where they had held the Cross-country skiing and Triathlon events in the Winter Olympics of 1988. It was a lovely sunshine day, about minus 8.

There is very little snow on the Rockies, but they had made snow, which was just as good. About 100 dogs competed, some were Huskies, Siberians and some were just plain thin ugly looking mutts, like Collies etc. You could go and look at the dogs. The opening ceremonies was a man playing on an “Alpe horing”, some Yodeling etc.

Besides the sleds there were also skiers pulled by dogs and fun items like guys leaping out of zipped up sleeping bags and doing three legged snowshoe races etc.
One guy only wore pants, braces, a wig, boots and gloves. On a turn he fell of and landed with he’s bare chest in the snow. B-R-R-R-R-!

It takes the dogs about 15 minutes to complete the +- 10 km course and they don’t even look tired afterwards. The sleds take off one at a time, because it seems the dogs easily get mixed up and go the wrong way.

Tokeloshe