Mushing on a "Chris Richey Special"

We used to have a friend in town named Chris Richey who came by our cabin one winter day a couple years ago to show off his homemade sled that he designed and built. It was made out of a plastic sled, willow branches and Duct tape- quite a laughable sight. This is the first year Ben or I have spent in AK without a dog sled, and so Ben decided to slap something together last night (a step up from Chris', I must say, but that's not saying much), and today we went mushing with our dogs Jessie and Shadow on what we call the "C. R. special". I'll post a pic. soon. The sled works well for only 2 dogs pulling, and there is a little seat for Kyzyl in the center. Agafia didn't want to ride, but Kyzyl had fun giving orders to the leader. It was 8 degrees today- not bad! 1/27/07