Dogsledding and skijoring are a couple of options
LEADVILLE, COLO. -- If you are still looking for a winter adventure for the whole family, you may want to include your pets.
Leadville, known as the highest city in the nation, boasts more than 200 inches of snow each year. A few areas even offer dogsledding.
Stacy Petty is the owner of Alpine Adventures. She has a fleet of 92 dogs who have been retrieved and rescued from various kennels. The dogs are Alaskan huskies that are well adapted to cold and snow and equipped to pull a sled together as a team. Petty uses team techniques so that the mushers, as they're called, build relationships with the dogs.
Around Leadville, trails are groomed to allow for safe travel.
Skijoring is also a popular winter activity. Skijoring involves having an animal, usually a dog, pull a cross-country skiier.
Fritz Howard has skijorred all around the world and says it is important to be comfortable on your skis. However, this is a very good activity to get exercise and companionship with a pet. He will hold skijoring clinics in January.
Leadville also offers more of a spectator viewpoint of skijoring. On the first weekend in March, skijoring races are held which involve horses instead of dogs. These races are for the extreme skiier and take the riders through downtown Leadville.
For more on this and all of the winter activities in the nation's highest altitude city, visit the city's web site.
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