Tricks - starts 11/25/23 Neighborhood

 First track:  about 60 yards total, 1 turn.  42 degrees, sunny, dry.  Run at 1:30 p.m.  Aged 1.25 hours. Nailed uphill start into woods.  Stopped for almost ALL food drops.  Food drops were pretty random.  Just trying to navigate woods & pick good line-ups.  Still working on the double line-ups.  Nice turn in woods. Then nice exit. Hesitated on straight out of woods, but then got right on track.  Did not indicate or stop at glove.. . pretty much walked over it.  So I just held him until he finally indicated.  Need to play glove games in the house.

https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1mNrNGG_HDuBs_vImW8SGr0uCA05X7sGD




Second track:  130 yards total, 1 turn.  Scuff 5, walk 5, SP. Scuff 5, walk 10, SP.  Scuff 5 walk 20 SP. Repeat pattern.   Just realized both tracks had a LEFT turn.  42 degrees sunny and dry.  Slight breeze.  Aged 1 hr 50 minutes.  Nice start parallelling woods.  Taking most of food drops. Great left turn, Crossed 2 paved  driveways, no problem.  Great stop at end article.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_O_bsnlLRlj6R8omdC7GY0iOjmL3TvBo/view?usp=sharing


I can't get the other picture in here!!!




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  1. JudiNovember 26, 2023 at 3:16 PM

    This all sounds great. I love that he’s getting the food drops—indicates he’s concentrating on tracking rather than trailing. Excellent

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