Fort Illio Siberian Huskies: 2013 KI 30 and Beyond

Last weekend we went to Brownville and put two teams in this race to help support the club and organization for putting this race on every year. This is one of our favorite races to go to because it is just a low key fun race! We both went into this race with just to have fun and use it as a training run for the yearlings. Trail was perfect, temperature was perfect, and the atmosphere of the race was perfect. What more could one ask for. Mom ran 9 dogs in the open class, she had Kaleeta, Cree, Sable, Yentna, Willow, Marocca, Kyat, Ruby, and Nikolai. She had a great run and came back smiling ear to ear! She came in 11 out of 13 teams with the yearling team. And a time of 3 hours and 27 minutes! I ran 10 dogs in the open class, those fabulous 10 are Wat and Bones in lead, Roland, Yoda, Waylon, Hinder, Kaltag, Dixie, Rimbey and Lumos. These guys cruised! I held them back the first 10 miles on the rail road bed, and than when we got in the hills, they loped up them! I was shocked to see them flying up the mountain! They would slow down to a trot for no more than a minute and than pick it right back up again to a lope! They had bigger plans than I did for this race apparently! We came in 3rd place out of 13 teams!! And was the fastest pure bred team! We did 30 miles in 2 hrs and 31 minutes. Here is the link to see the full results! http://www.mainesleddogclub.com/page5.php And some photos to enjoy! My team coming into the finish line