The Medford Mush

The Medford Mush is a weekend short-distance dog mushing race put on by the Medford Trailblazers Club.  Last year was the first year the kids entered, and it was a three-day race.  This year they went down to 2 days.  The race was postponed because we lost so much snow earlier in February- they weren’t sure they would be able to reschedule it, but we got more snow and the race was on.  Dave had already committed to speaking at Ogema Baptist Church that Sunday, so we told the kids they could only race one day.  But wonderful friends of ours kindly offered to take Carter and Moriah back on Sunday.  (Their younger son, Dakota, is the first one pictured- he is actually encouraging Carter’s team- who was just behind him- on to the finish!) The weather was great- snowing and in the teens on Saturday.  We were out at the rodeo grounds all day as John Henry raced for the first time (the 2-dog, 2-mile race) and Moriah (same as JH) and Carter (3-dog, 4-mile race) both improved their times from last year, so we were very pleased.  We even had friends who came out to cheer us on.  It was a great time!

Posted Feb 26, 2009 by Rebeccah — Comments (1) — Filed under: Community, Family