Next Saturday we have official season-opening here at Eräkeskus. 2 groups for Bears Trail and 1 group for winterweek/winterweek Plus is arriving and we are in the last preparations. "Preparations" for this week, means mostly getting prepared to alternative programs, as Finish Weather-god has obviously forgotten, that we should have winter, not autumn right now. One day rain, one day snow, one day rain, one day snow... that's what we get here at the moment, and although there is still hope for enough snow until the weekend to run the programs "normally", we have to get mentally ready for a different program. Our guests are informed and still looking forward to an open-program-week.
Autumn-training 2016 will be started with a "new" training-car which arrived a few days ago. During summer we will pimp it up a bit, make it a lot lighter and then the training on sand can start in September or October 16 with again 2 training cars.
Last week we had again visit from our dog-masseuse/chiropracticien Outi. During 5 days she helped training dogs and could see by that 1 : 1 what effort the dogs are giving when pulling and depending on their individual running-style which body-parts are the most used. And with this knowing, she could best possible massage and treat our dogs, relax the tight muscles and get them ready for the season start. Thanks Outi, welcome again anytime!
And last but not least... yesterday the sun came back! After weeks (felt months) living in grey, finally yesterday we had a sunny day with blue sky again and we were all happy about the short change. Only for one day, but at least this one day! According to calender, the sun is actually "here" for 4h48min today, but we have grey again. Moon is visible at the moment for 8h04min and that's why we look forward to a fullmoon-night at Christmas!