Mt Massive 2010

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The 2010 Mt Massive Mush is just a week away.
 
New this year, we are planning dinner Saturday evening at the clubhouse. $12 lasagna meal, meat or vegetarian. All proceeds will go to the Mt Massive Golf Course, our low-budget County-owned facility that has supported the race from the beginning. A nice chance to avoid the winter carnival crowds at the restaurants in town and relax at the clubhouse with your fellow mushers!
 
The Shelter Dog Shuffle is at 1:30 Saturday afternoon. Bring a friend, an extra dog and your skis, snowshoes or whatever for this mass-start 1 mile fun run. $15 per entry. Fastest team with a dog(s) from the local shelter wins the big prize. 100% of your entry fees go to the Leadville/ Lake County Animal Shelter! (No dogsleds please, limit 2 dogs per person, no loose dogs, thanks!)
 
We have been working on the trail all week. There is 2 to 3+ feet of snow on the ground, and the trail is packing down nicely. Helmets are strongly recommended, there are lots of stout tree trunks right along the edges of the trail and the same sharp turns as always. Steph wanted to get some air this year, so we have added a few mandatory jumps in random places on the trail (kidding). The course is closed Thursday afternoon through Sunday afternoon, please respect our efforts to produce the best possible trail and event for everyone.
 
We have lined up 12 cash sponsors for a $1400 purse. Please support these fine local business whenever you are in Leadville!
 
Hope to see you there, and thanks for supporting the club!

[tpaz]

Hello!  I just want to share my photos from your event from this past weekend.   

You can find them here:   http://www.tpaz.net/mountmassivemush 

There are galleries for Saturday (one) and Sunday (two). 

The photos are all open for downloading to your own PC for your personal use.   (Just hover your mouse pointer over the upper left-hand side of the photo and choose the "Download Original" option.)   
   
I have really enjoyed the experience and opportunity to practice photographing your event the past few years while I've been on assignment in Denver.  While I'm hoping to be back home in Florida fulltime before next winter, I'll miss seeing you all enjoying time with your dogs out on the trail.  It really looks like both mushers and dogs are having a lot of fun out on the trails.   

Regards,
-tom

P.S.  They let the equestrian events in the Summer Olympics.   Why isn't your sport in the Winter games?   Seems like a natural to me.

[steph]

Thanks so much Tom for coming out and taking such incredible pictures!  We will miss seeing you out on the trail as well!