Cross Country Skiing at the Pass

 

look closely and you can see Red hot on the trail of a snowshoe hare

All week and much of last week the dogs and I have been XC skiing at the golf course.  It has been excellent XC skiing, but after a week it had gotten a little repetitive going around and around the same figure eight loop.  So yesterday we drove to the pass to go skiing.

The last storm ended with rain to the mountaintops and high wind so the snow on high is a little too blown off, crusty and breakable for downhill skiing.  But the crust country skiing was okay.  Actually not as good as it is at the golf course but certainly different.

The dogs and I toured around through the alder and spruce trees.  The dogs chased snowshoe hares this way and that. I am not sure if chasing is the right word - I think they more tracked the hares than actively chased them.  I'd see a hare bob on by and then 60 to 70 meters behind I'd see a black dog blundering through the brush on the rabbit trail.  Then the dog would go the wrong way.

Patrick

At the bottom of this post is a video of the dogs howling along to the tsunami warning test alarm.  Every Wednesday at 2 PM the alarm goes off as a test, and every time the dogs rush out the dog door and howl along to the alarm.