Things are moving along here.  Juggling time here between trying to put energy into Roam the Woods, a women specific backpacking company that my close friend and I started a year ago.  For those of you who haven't checked it out in a while, please check us out at: www.roamthewoods.com, as well as let your friends know we are out there.  Thank you all for your continued support in this endeavor, now let's make it happen!

Lupe, a cute little dog sled gal, waiting to get some loving.

Keep roaming the woods.

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Solutions

It always starts with a brief glimmer of an idea and hopefully ends up with a solution!

Meet Patio, another one of our fine snow dogs here.  Pray for Snow!

Waiting for Snow

We are still waiting for ENOUGH snow here at the Kennel to get into the full swing of things.  Slowly, our trail is almost done up at Smuggler's Notch as we got rained out last Sunday from Bootlegger's Basin, so we have one more day of work.  Soon some nice carpenter will be building us frames to set up our canvas tents on, so we can start create a functioning kennel up in the Smugg's woods.  It is almost Christmas, which is the season for dog sled tours...this break usually keeps the kennel afloat and is one of the only times of year where you can count on business coming in.  So as always we are praying for snow and that we will be moving up to Smugg's to get settled in sometime soon!  We have to test out are trail first, and become accustomed with all the in's and out's and oh my gods! of  the trail to take customers out on a pleasant, thrilling but safe dog sled ride!  So, let's hope for the best.

The wonderful dog up there is Jack, one of the lovely, hard-headed Malamutes at the Kennel.  He sure is a sweetie, is a leader but sometimes doesn't like to listen right away...I think that is a Malamute attribute.  With all that being said.... I will take him out any day of the week with his Malamute brethren.....Why not?  Like I say, the dogs keep me humble, besides I think Jack is training me too.

Let the snow keep coming.

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Out here is where the magic happens, here in the quiet, gentle hills.
Here is where you have cried out with moans as deep as the earth.
Here is where you found your long lost self the madness took away.
You will leave part of yourself here, but you will take all the hope of the world with you.
So, when you go back to people who talk big in large rooms.
You will know this: You have been silent in places too beautiful for words.

-Anonymous

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Bootlegger's Basin

Will be spending this winter running dog sled tours at Smuggler's Notch, VT.  We will be setting up a temporary dog yard at Bootlegger's Basin and will live out of canvas wall tents this winter.  Should be interesting once we get into the groove of things.  NH dog sledding is different then West Coast dog sledding, I will shed some light on that in the future as this is all currently an assumption from stories I have heard.

I am hoping for a mellow season, not too much excitement as the last 5 months of hiking have held enough snow and adventure for a least a year at a minimum.  We are creating a day trail next to our new home in the woods, which is sure too offer excitement for all our wonderful guests, hopefully not overwhelming excitement, where you have to convince yourself your anxiety is truly excitement.  Very handy trick if you ever need to use it.

A lot of the dogs here are rescues, so as well as Alaskan Huskies they have some Malamutes I get to work with too.  They are hard-headed I will say that.

A new adventure and I've never been this far east so I will share what I find out about this world with you all.

Good Winter!

“Be daring, be different, be impractical; be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.” –Cecil Beaton