Conditions were not quite as nice today as they were yesterday, being more crunchy. Started on the 1st trail with both dogs and quickly decided that that was not fun so returned Walter to the car and just took Lucy out. With both dogs being fresh and raring to go, it's too much on slick conditions and slick skis. I'll try them together again sometime but only when conditions are nice and the dogs aren't fresh.
So back out we went, took the 1st trail to the 4th, up the main trail to End Loop, then back via 4th and 1st. Or something like that. On End Loop my skijoring partner and I switched dogs for the fun of it. Lucy in front and my new dog in the back. I found it very entertaining having this new vantage point on Lucy whose nose was glued to the ground, especially compared to this dog who was trotting happily along not sticking her nose in the bush or sniffing all of the trails. After a while Lucy was entering full hound mode so I spared my companion and we swapped back to our own dog. For the rest of the run she remained in hound mode.
On the way back on the main trail, there were a couple of people going for a walk who had moved over to the side. Lucy couldn't wrap her brain around this and did some barking. Seeing as they were dog people I took her over to them to see that they're just people, not scary abominable snow people, and she was happy to get some good lovin' from them.
Lucy's stamina is so much better than Walter's for some reason even though she gets less offleash exercise.
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