Hopefully I'll dredge up a bit more from pics that are trickling in from folks that had cameras and maybe one or two more off mine from Saturday... I saw a LOT of flashes going off on Sunday when it was just Rogan and I out there so my fingers are crossed!

Heading into a hard left turn here at a pretty good clip. Note crash gear! Gotta take these hounds seriously, they are POWERFUL and FAST.

Your one-stop-shop for scooter insanity: dogscooter.com. That would be run by Daphne, who is out of Seattle, and who really kicked the scooter thing down the road a number of years ago.

Los Tres Horribles have had their picture in a few editions of her book 'my dog likes to run, I like to ride'

I'm still waiting for more photos to show up from other folks... they're trying to get the club webmaster to gather them all in one spot, which would be cool since I've got great shots of some other teams.

In the meantime, I bring you "Dulcie in sleeping bag after event". Besdes her shortened solo 'victory lap' , she was the rabbit for a couple other dogs learning the scootering- thing to chase on Sunday.

Yay, more pics! I think the other one I already posted was the best, but these show how hard Rogie was working for me solo on Saturday. Good boy, big buddy. " src="/DesktopModules/NTForums/themes/blue/emoticons/smile.gif" />

Thats awesome. If you had to slam on the breaks how would the scooter take that? Would it flip over or stay on the ground? Is it even safer then biking with a dog?

Imo it's safer than a bike because you can bail out the side much easier- no top tube to kick a leg over, just step off. Either way you have to lean WAY back during fast stops.

There's a couple things you can also do to prevent 'sudden stoppage accidents', including 'rope suck' where the line ends up suddenly jammed in the front fork with a tendancy to toss the driver off over the handlebars into the dogs....

- run a bit to one side or the other of the dog
- modulate speed carefully to keep tension in the line, especially with dogs starting out
- use a LONG section of bungie to help suck up slack and bumps. I think mine is 4' long compressed and 6' long stretched.

Rogan can take the scooter over 20mph by himself for bursts. I'm more likely to have a 'sudden meaty detour' incident (think squirrels or bunnies or cats) than 'sudden stoppage' incident with him.

You could try a scooter like that, but beach riding is definately slow hard pulling. My uncle ran on the Oregon dunes through about 3 decades and he preferred using a 4 wheeled cart with ATV wheels to prevent 'sinkage'. Of course he had 3-4 dogs minimum hooked up.

If you post on the dogslovetorun and/or SEmushers yahoo group you will probably scare up some scooter folks in Florida that could help you out if you're interested in giving it a whirl.

Hee... my one and only attempt at roller-joring resulted in destroying a nearly new set of jeans and feeling pretty lucky that my butt wasn't more torn up than it was. I'll stick with the scooter!

Running in open fields et al is sort of 'graduate work'. You definately want to start with running on clearly defined paths or roads and working from there.