Christmas 1994 in Yellowstone: Dog Sleds and Moose

December 23, 1994, Friday

The dogsled pups are resting too. Judy makes the acquaintance of one of these wonderful dogs. They really seem to enjoy the sledding. Later on our trek, we also passed a man in cross-country skis who was being pulled by his two dogs on leashes, and making some pretty good time.

Here's a really nice view of the creek we traveled near during our snowmobiling. Beautiful country!

We took a little side-trip down an un-used trail, and took the opportunity to open up the throttles on the snowmobiles, taking a little air occasionally. Now if you look really close, you'll see the moose up on the hillside that we almost missed because we were racing down this trail!

Well, it's a shame we don't have the video converted to MPEG for this web site, or you'd see a wonderful thing. It was easy enough to get the snowmobiles off the trailer, but getting it back on was a trick! Basically, you tilt the trailer, and gun the snowmobile up the trailer, while making sure you don't overshoot and end up in the back window of the Bronco. Bobby did a bang-up job on the first snowmobile, but the second snowmobile ended up hanging half-way off the front end of the trailer.
At any rate, we got back safely enough to get our deposit back!

Snowcats Into Yellowstone

Granite Hot Springs Pool

Updated 4/6/1996 by Kathy D. Lessa

	The dogsled pups are resting too. Judy makes the acquaintance of one of these wonderful dogs. They really seem to enjoy the sledding. Later on our trek, we also passed a man in cross-country skis who was being pulled by his two dogs on leashes, and making some pretty good time.
	Here's a really nice view of the creek we traveled near during our snowmobiling. Beautiful country!
	We took a little side-trip down an un-used trail, and took the opportunity to open up the throttles on the snowmobiles, taking a little air occasionally. Now if you look really close, you'll see the moose up on the hillside that we almost missed because we were racing down this trail!
Well, it's a shame we don't have the video converted to MPEG for this web site, or you'd see a wonderful thing. It was easy enough to get the snowmobiles off the trailer, but getting it back on was a trick! Basically, you tilt the trailer, and gun the snowmobile up the trailer, while making sure you don't overshoot and end up in the back window of the Bronco. Bobby did a bang-up job on the first snowmobile, but the second snowmobile ended up hanging half-way off the front end of the trailer. At any rate, we got back safely enough to get our deposit back!