more seriously they can get snow melting between the pads of the feet, and then freezing again as ice, this can cut them between the pads and can be quite a problem. For a short trip in snowy weather, you normally just need to keep an eye on them, for a longer trip you can buy a form of paraffin wax that can be put on the paws and up the legs, to prevent balling (Karma once came on a ski trip and on two hours afterwards he still had balls of snow on the backs of his legs and under his stomach!!!).
And then the weather changes, temperature jumps up by six degrees C (i.e. over freezing), it begins to rain, and all the snow melts and we get flooding! Which Newfie's don't mind either!
In between two storms, today we managed to sneak off and fly from one of the hills over town. Can't see from vid clip but all the hills further back have snow cover on them. Friends have asked what is it like to fly a paraglider, so here is a high speed clip (slowed in places, but most of it is played at a faster speed, and then most folk will still find it boring, kind of thing that's best to do, with a tandem trip if you've never tried it (all the fun, with none of the training). Per & I took off from Dalsnuten and landed in Dale. Marginal conditions at take off, just enough to inflate the glider backwards, but you had to be quick to get airborne. Oh and if anyone can figures what falls off the glider, please let me know(played it back and took out four still frames, haven't got a clue what it is, and didn't notice it whilst I was flying, only afterwards looking on the vid, wing, risers, harness, & cockpit are all fine, so I'm a wee bit baffled.
Then it was into the car, picked up Kin an off to Oberstad to try our luck with coast hang. Way too windy, so didn't get to fly, but Kin did get to make friends with three folk on a Christmas walk, sadly I didn't manage to get a pic of them making a fuss over him.
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