Countdown...

Bounty

Tosca

... well, maybe not yet... who knows, how long we can drive sleds this season! This morning we had again -20 degrees C and during the last few days we got at least 30 cm of fresh powdersnow. That makes the trails again perfect! What a joy to drive teams on soft, white trails, under blue sky and with sunglasses on, temeraptures during the day just around 0C. But we already started to down-train the first dogs. The older generations and the veterans are driving onlythe short 3.5 km loop any more. Also a few of the others, starting to feel a bit tired, we can already send to the well deserved summer-break.  But in those days it is exactly those dogs, who do a very important job: they show our youngsters from summer 2021 what their future job will be. The Minea-"Pups" and the Lelu-"Pups" are trained now for the first times. Bounty - as a perfect teenager in the picture - and all the others already learned, what it means to be "sleddog" and it looks like they have a lot of fun! A very promising new generation, who will show their real potential then later in autumn training 2022. 

Our first itter for summer 2022 is by now confirmed by ultrasound: Our Tosca will have her 2nd litter. The calculated litter-date is in the first days of May and proud daddy will be Frodo. That's all we tell at the moment about our summer-litters, until at least more ultrasounds confirm the other litters. Stay tuned... 

Besides many guests on the "Bears Trail" we also have many winterweek-guests and plenty of snowshoe-hikes are done by "our" Finn Matias along river Jongunjoki or around the Änäkäinenn Lakes. With the current perfect conditions, more and more prints of wild animals can be found and Matias always has some stories to tell. He knows a lot about nature and guests learn a lot.  

Coming weekend we get visit from earlier team-members from Switzerland, who run  by now the company "Huskystuff" with their own pack. After the season in Switzerland they now want to sled a bit in Finnland. We are curious to see you again, get to know your pack and wish you a good trip! See you soon! 

Besides that, no more news from us, except that we find now time also for our own holiday planning. Because sooner or later it is also our turn!