A Gauntlet of Obstacles

Returning to Stave Lake for the first time in about a year was quite an adventure. First there were the excavators working that the flag girl radioed to stop while we wove our way through...

Then cresting what is affectionately (or not so affectionately known) as the B_TCH hill we were stopped by another flagger.

Here she called a pilot car to drive us through. (that's the pilot turning around) The pilot car driver was from Inuvik, and was astonished to find a dog team training down here in Lotus Land.

The pilot car was required to take us past the moving rock trucks.

And then, finally for chills and giggles all dogs had a good sniff at the ribcage laying on the road as we passed by. Yep, I said ribcage, I mean why not? Doesn't every dog team driver deal with the odd random ribcage laying in the road?

Once again I am humbled by this little team of mine. Huge thanks to Karen Ramstead of North Wapiti: http://www.northwapiti.com/

for parting with Hilda. Hilda is teaching the baby Raven to ignore such distractions and together they took the team through all the heavy construction with not even a flinch. Even youngster Skala who ran beside veteran bomb proof Impi was not perturbed by all of the commotion. The things these dogs do for me, just because I ask them. WOW, thanks team!

ps.... YES that is snow, and YES it was in the minus digits this weekend, and YES this is only November in Lotus Land.......