March
2009
A welcome break in Hovden
Time for some pics to make the site look a bit more interesting! We were in Hovden last week for 5days - staying in the BP hytte, with friends and their 18month old daughter. Managed to get in lots of skiing (cross-country) and Mist did pretty well at keeping out of the way of skis/pulks/other people, carrying her panniers, not bothering the kids etc. etc. ….Except for one notable incident where she was allowed to run loose (there was a very long downhill stretch and I was worried she’d suddenly get stuck in the deep snow off to the side and I’d catapult her downhill as I carried on - it did happen once another day 
)… a man went past quite fast and Mist decided to run after him. She’d not been bothered by the many others who’d past us but this guy was for some reason of interest. Him shouting at her and trying to fend her off with his poles only made her more excited, and she had great fun playing her ‘game’ for a few hundred metres, before realising we were far away and she’d better go back and find us. My only consolation was that we were probably safe from getting a good telling off, as there was no way he’d ski all the way back up the hill to tell us what he thought of us 
. Oops! Otherwise I was a responsible dog owner and Mist was on lead all the time except when Jon took her out early in the morning or late evening when noone else was around.
