Dog Sledding.

So today it finally happened. After three months of talking about it, waiting for it to snow and to find some time when we were both free, we finally went dog sledding. I literally could not contain my excitement whilst we were driving to Lake Louise. There are so many cool things to do in this country that we will never be able to do back home and I just want to try and cram in as much as possible, the tick list begins with this.

We didn't have to meet with the tour company until 2pm, so we took the spare time as an opportunity to do a few laps at Lake Louise in the glorious sunny weather. I absolutely love that ski hill! It's so refreshing to be somewhere other than Sunshine, where it takes more than three minutes to complete a run. They have a lovely tree run that I really enjoy, and it was actually quite nice to be back on my skis. Don't get me wrong I am enjoying the challenge of learning to snowboard, but it's great to be able to step back from that and just have fun. But before I begin to ramble on about that, I shall get back to the dogs.

So we arrived just before 2pm and got to pet the dogs and learn a bit about them all, then we met our 'team', got in the sled and off we went. My God whilst all the sleds (there were five groups that departed at the same time) were waiting to get going the noise is like nothing you can imagine. Over 30 dogs all harnessed up and raring to go, the barking was insane. I'm pretty sure it induced a slight headache over the two minutes we were waiting, but I was so excited I could not care less. So off we went.

Our guide was called Cody and he was awesome. He knew so much about the area, the dogs, had good recommendations for things to do and just made the whole experience really chilled and great fun. We went up to the Great Divide, took a break there and wandered around and had some more time with the dogs, and then we did a loop and scooted back to the base. There were so many photo opportunities during the trip so I've got a lot to share with you...