Nurhan:
Yes Kin has now done his first multi-day ski trip!
Just kidding! You have to be very careful with giant breed dogs until they are 12- 18 months old when it comes to exercise; less careful after 18 months, and a lot less careful after three years (when a giant breed is {finally} fully grown). Stairs, steep slopes, long trips, too much playing with other dogs, & dogs that turn inside them, all to be moderated/avoided.
Kin 'assisting' David putting on a snow shoe. Should point out that the snow was hard packed so ideal for walking on without skis or snow shoes (i.e. good for Kin). Only reason that David is putting his on, is to keep me company as I bought a set to get to take offs with the paraglider in soft snow (all up weight with the glider is ~ 105 kgs and I take a size 41 shoe... i.e. I sink like a jet propelled rock).
David, wondering why he's stopped... Kin's top tip on how to cripple someone's forward progress when they are wearing snow shoes... run between the legs, and then lie down on both snow shoes, thus bringing the person to a halt!
Tried snow shoes, then swapped to skis... mainly so Kin could get used to the idea of us humans having lots of strange things on our feet!
Here I am giving Kin a through briefing on how to follow someone using fjellski (these are metal edged skis - the metal edges can cut dogs paws so you need to be very careful with them). - An alternative perception of this picture, is that I might (just possibly) have ham in my left hand...
Yes, there's nothing like a long hard day's ski trip with your dog... and this was nothing like a long hard day's ski trip with my dog... I'd be surprised if at any point we managed to get more than 250 m away from where the car is parked, hard packed snow, and the steepest slope was ~ 1:25.
Kin rushing the camera!
Even got David to smile on 'film' - {or it might have had something to do with a conversation about women, hosiery and skirts of limited material quantity...}.
We also discovered that one time BBQs aren't the best things to have when the paper burns and the coals ignore any effect of the heat... this led to David trying to light individual coals by holding a lighter to them... Sterling effort!
Still, as David pointed out, the burgers were mainly unfrozen...
Kin wondering where all the water has gone...
Active...
Bit tired...
More tired, but there's food around...
He slept all the way home in the car.
He slept at home...
And now he's snoring by my feet... which is a damn good idea... I'm off to join him...
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