Spring? Bah, Humbug!
Why its the middle of winter here in the spine of North America and time for ski-joring.
This is the ski-joring competition held last weekend in Leadville, Colorado, highest incorporated town in North America at 10,200 feet elevation. Whimpy easterners do it with dogs. Westerners do with horses.
If you find yourself asking "why", you clearly lack the pioneer spirit to make it through a winter here.
So perhaps you'd prefer Colorado in August and the epic (and very moving) challenge of the Leadville Trail 100 which I wrote about in the Leadville Effect. You could attend Making Disciples and then tour our stunning state and finish by witnessing the highest altitude ultra-marathon in North America.
Colorado: altitude with attitude. It helps to be a little bit crazy.
posted by Sherry W @ 9:35 AM
2 Comments
2 Comments:
Maybe you should look again, try www.nesja.com Equestrian Ski Joring is alive and well in the east. We compete with the same venues and rules as you will see out west but have more races which include the USA and Canada.
Our fastest horses are competitive or faster than most of the western horses. And by the way, we don't consider Ski joring with a dog a real sport either.
NESJA invites you to come on out and compete or spectate with us.
Keep on Joring
Geoff Smith
President NESJA
As an owner of two huskies (and future ski-jorers), I resemble that remark. It's just not the same when a horse licks you in the face. :)
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