Samoyed championships in Furudal

On Friday Ergo and Corona went for a show in Furudal. Photos and results will come later in their own sites. On saturday and today Håkan has participated in 2x10km sledge with a six team, Arija, Corona, Deimos, Delta, Ergo and Corall. They finished as number two and the dogs in the team now have done the D20+ test.

Bielka has been digging - with her eye?

Aijas

Competitions in January

Today the sun shines, and a few degrees below freezing makes the thin covering of snow to creak under your feet.

During January we have participated in two different races. On 21-22 January, we went to Nederhögen and Håkan competed 2x30km with 4 of our dogs, Arija, Aijas, Deimos and Corall. He went  Nordic style 2x30km and both days  the time was two hours and eighteen minutes. They passed the D60 test and finished up on second place in the competition. Not bad, 13km / h on average, carrying 54 kg in the sledge.
Next weekend we went again, this time to Lekvattnet. Håkan now went nordic style 2x10km with Arija, Corona, Deimos and Ergo. First day they went at an average speed of 14.3 km / h and the second day, 15.2 km / h.  They finished as winners and beat number two with a total of 11minutes. On Saturday, Håkan went nordic style 10km with Aijas who finished the distance in 53:50 minutes, and on Sunday with Arija the same distance at the time 48:21 min. With these results both Arija and Aijas fullfill the criteria for S (Polar) champion.

Aijas, Arija, Corall, Deimos and Håkan before start in Nederhögen

Finish at Nederhögen

Håkan and Aijas, finish at Lekvattnet

Håkan and Arija, finish at Lekvattnet

At last a little bit of snow

I hope you all have had a Hppy New Year and that your dogs haven't been afraid.
At last we have had a little bit of snow and the temperature has been below zero. Some kilometers from home and bit higher above sea level there's more snow, almost 1dm. Unfortunatly not enough to go sledging but enough so the dogs must work really hard as they pull our ATV.

Last thursday Pernilla OW came for a visit. We have had three lovely days, talking about dogs and spending a lot of time with dogs. We also had some time for training the dogs.

Pernilla WO is mushing a twelwe team for the first time in her life

New Years gift

Some days ago we had a very nice New Years gift; the result of the hip X ray of six of our dogs. They all had A-hips so we were really happy. Now we know that 15 out of 18 dogs have A-hips and 2  have B-hips. This is a really good result since the chance that 17 randomly chosen dogs will have either A or B-hips is only about 1%. We conclude that the environment during puppy hood is very likely to be very important for the development of the hips.


We have no snow and no ice, but today it has been a bit cold so maybe there will be a bit of winter. A few days before Christmas we had a little bit of snow, but the day before Christmas the rain took it all away. During this period of very bad weather, icy or muddy roads we have been especially happy about the dogyard where we can let the dogs run loose. They play and run just for the fun of running and as one watches them the heart becomes warm and you feel happy.




Running on icy road



we need to stop and give the dogs water quite frequently as it's a bit warm

                                   One evening we had some snow and the dogs really enjoyed it

Eros X-rayed and eyes checked

Congratulation Marie and Ulf for the good results and thanks a lot for checking this, it's so important for us, to evaluate our breeding. The results will shortly be found in E-litter, under litter-info

Quick visit to Åre

On friday we went to Åre by car. The resaon for our visit was that we were going to recieve a diploma for having finished the white ribbon, that is; going from Grövelsjön to Treriksröset in some way without using any kind of vehicle with an engine. This year, in march and april, Håkan and I went from Särna, passing Grövelsjön and going on to Treriksröset. by dog sledge. It was a marvellous adeventure and you can read more about it and se photos if you click on "Expedition with samoyeds in Skanderna".
At the meeting in Åre we were welcomed by Annicka and Torkel Ideström who have started the white and the green ribbon (going from Grövelsjön to Treriksröset in summertime). Invited to the meeting were also Peter Askulv from Klättermusen, Kalle Grahn from Utemagasinet and Elin Engerström who has walked, biked and gone skiing and paddling really long distances. Annicka, Torkel, Peter, Kalle and Elin were the jury that was going to decide if we were going to be awarded a diploma or not. There are several rules that have to be followed so we had to show photos from the tour and tell about it.

It was a very nice meeting and it was especially nice to watch Lars and Nicklas photos and to listen to their stories about their tours. Lars hade walked the green ribbon and Nicklas the white, with dog sledge with Siberian Huskies.

Peter, Nicklas and Håkan

Lars, Torkel, Kalle, Elin, Peter, Nicklas



This lovely cake was the dessert



and we did recieve our diplomas

Merry Christmas

Now it's soon Christmas and we finally had some snow, not enough to go sledriding but the dogs love it and it lightens up the dark evenings.