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XC Skiing With Your Dog

Each season more nordic centers are designating a portion of their trail system for skiers with dogs. Please be a responsible dog owner when bringing your dog to these businesses. Allowing dogs at a cross country center is still a new idea and a few bad experiences will slow the process.

Generally if the dog trails are groomed, there will be a trail fee (often for both dog and skier). Be sure to check on the ski area's policy re: dogs. Some will allow loose dogs while others require dogs to be leashed or attached to the skier (skijoring). Express your appreciation for the dog trails to ski area employees and enjoy the time skiing with your dog.


Some Simple Courtesies

  • Keep your dog under control at all times.
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  • Be particularly aware of your dog in the parking lot and trail head where you'll encounter skiers without dogs.

  • Abide by all municipal animal control ordinances and city, state and federal regulations.

  • Have proof of current rabies vaccination available.

  • Be courteous to other skiers and snowshoers.

  • Bag and remove any feces.

  • Restrain dogs before and after skiing, either by attaching to leads, tying up, or by leaving in your vehicle. Keep dogs within three feet of you or your vehicle.

  • Be in control of your dog at all times.


    • Ski Joring Courtesies
    • Be able to cross country ski competently and don't ski with more dogs than you can handle.
    • Use proper equipment, including cross country skis, poles, boots, belt, shock-chord bungee line, and harness. Necklines are recommended for tandem dogs; do not use choke collars.
    • When passing from behind, call "Trail" and "On your right (or left"). If being passed, move to one side, slow down or stop and pull your dog toward you. In head-on passes, pull to the right and pull your dog close to you.
    • Yield to faster skiers coming downhill.


    Ski Joring Information

    Skijoring is Norwegian for "ski driving." The sport originated in Scandanavia as a combination of cross country skiing and dog mushing. Simplified its skiing with one or more dogs attached to the skier with a line hooked to a wide waist belt. Requires solid skiing skills. For more information contact:

    Alaska Skijoring and Pulk Association PO Box 82843 Fairbanks, AK 99708, phone 907-479-0848, herriges@gci.net, www.sleddog.org/skijor

    New England Sled Dog Club R.R. #2 Box 262H Lyme, NH 03768, phone 603-353-4601, info@nesdc.org, www.nesdc.org

    North American Skijor and Ski Pulk Association PO Box 240573, Anchorage AK 99524, phone 907-349-9663, brockra@alaska.net, www.ptialaska.net/~skijor

    "Ski Spot Run: The Enchanting world of Skijoring and Related Dog-Powered Sports"
    PO Box 1401, Minnetonka, MN 55345, 952-476-7401, KISATI@mn.rr.com, www.kisati.com

     

    The following Cross Country Ski Areas are welcoming dogs
    (see Resort Guide for more information on these nordic centers):

    New England
    Bethel Inn, ME
    Carter's XC Ski Center, ME
    Five Fields Farm, ME
    Harris Farm, ME
    Pineland Farms, ME
    Sugarloaf Ski Touring Center, ME
    Sunday River, ME

    Bear Notch Ski Touring Center, NH
    Bretton Woods, NH
    Norsk, NH
    Sagamore Ski, NH
    Sunset Hill, NH

    Blueberry Lake, VT
    Bolton Valley, VT
    Craftsbury Outdoor Center, VT
    Equinox, VT  
    Morse Farm, VT


    Great Brook Farm Ski Touring Center (in adjacent State Park), MA
    Notchview, MA

    Mid-Atlantic
    Artic Circle, NY
    Bark Eater, NY
    Chautauqua County Parks, NY
    Garnet Hill Lodge, NY
    Pineridge, NY

    Timberline Ski Resort, WV
    White Grass, WV

    Savage River Lodge, MD

    Midwest
     Boyne Nordican XC Ctr., MI
    Michigan Tech, MI

    Justin Trails Nordic Ctr., WI
    Palmquist's The Farm,  WI

    Gunflint Lodge, MN
    North Shore Ski, MN

    Mountains
    Aspen/snowmass Ski Area , CO
    Crested Butte, CO
    Gold Run Nordic, CO
    Grand Lake Touring, CO
    Snow Mountain, CO
    Telluride, CO
    Ute Meadows, CO

    Pahaska Tepee Resort,WY

    Enchanted Forest ,  NM

    Mountain Meadows, MT


    Galena Lodge, ID
    North Valley Trails, ID
    Sun Valley Nordic, ID

    Farwest
    Flagstaff Nordic Ctr., AZ

    Mt. Hood Meadows, OR

    Bear Valley, CA
    Green Valley, CA
    Kirkwood, CA
    Mt. Shasta Ski Park, CA


    Methow Valley , WA

    Matanaska-Susitna Borough Trail Systems, AK

    Canada
    Nipika Mountain, BC
    Silver Star Mountain, BC

     

     

       

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