First Race of the Year!!!

The first race of the 2011-12 season is coming up this weekend, the 15th through the 17th, in West Yellowstone, MT.  This race, the Rodeo Run, is 20 miles with 8 dogs on Friday and Saturday.  Thursday night are the pre-race festivities and drawing for start position.  Friday and Saturday the first team will head out at 9:00 am.  In 2009, I ran in the 6-dog 7 mile class at this race with my dad's older distance team and got 2nd place.  In 2010 with my team, we received 7th place in the 8-dog 20 mile event.  Last year, we received 6th place in the 8-dog class.  As of right now, there are 11 other mushers signed up for he 8-dog class, but entries do not close till Thursday evening so more could come.  The 8 dogs I will be running in the race are:

Bella ~ Alice              

Otter ~ Super Cub     

Emmett ~ Jasper           

Kaycee ~ Ra                

We'll be training today and tomorrow, and then head down to West late Thursday morning.  Wish us luck!

On the trail during the 2010 race