The BrownStone Cascade Peaks litter was whelped July 25, 2013. Each puppy was given different color rick-rack and a unique registry name using the Chinook language names for different Cascade mountains. In birth order: Wy'east (Mt. Hood), Mr Navy; Loowit (Mt. St. Helens), Ms Pink; Pahto (Mt Adams), Mr. Red, Karuk (Mt Shasta) Mr. Green; Klah (Three Sisters), Ms Purple; Koma (Mt. Baker) Ms Yellow and Mazama (Crater Lake) Ms Orange. I hope to feature each of the pups this week.
I have always wanted a boy named Trask after the famous Oregon frontiersman and his namesake's Trask mountain and Trask river (a premier Chinook spawning river). When I finally chose which boy to keep, I changed his registry name from Wy'east to Trask.
Trask weighed 11 oz when he was born
By week 4, he was 5lb 8oz and actively exploring his environment.
At 8 weeks old, Trask was a 17 lbs 8 oz pawfull for his mother.
By three months, Trask was doing his best to keep up with the rest of the BrownStone pack and developing quite an independent streak.
At 3 1/2 months, Trask joined mom Koyuk and grandmom Cedar for his first dryland mushing experience.
He lead a team of 11 Chinooks.
The goofy, gangly, gnat brain, boy had completed Puppergarten and earned is AKC STARS obedience title at 4 months.
In early December, he had his first experience in harness, on snow.
What was to be just a photo-op turned into a tangled race down the hill.
By 6 months, Trask was 50.6 lbs and ...
the CGC class "wild child".
At 7 months Tule Loowit joined Trask, Koyuk and Cedar for our one and only sled run of the season.
At 8 months Trask started to do short trail runs with Koyuk and Cedar.
At 9 months he took his first rig run in harness. Trask is a mushing maniac. By the time we ended our run, he was not only pulling me on the rig, but Cedar and Koyuk too. In fact after this run, I had the bike shop put bike brakes on the rig to supplement the disc brakes.
At 10 months he participated in the Bark-in-the-Park Run with a pack of 1000 or so other dogs. I was so proud of how he handled himself around all the the people and dogs. Trask loves everyone and feels the need to greet each and every one of them - thus we did a more rapid and zig-zag run than I had anticipated.
Trask LOVES his bones. Like a toddler with a pacifier, he always seems to have one in his mouth (when he doesn't have something else he shouldn't have gotten into and be chewing on earning him the name "Trash collector").
11 months old and such a happy boy.
Trask is bigger than Koyuk and Cedar.
At 67 lbs Trask still has some growing to do but he is turning into one handsome boy.
Happy First Birthday to my 66.4 lb, "snuggle bunny", "wild child", "lover boy" "Trash collector", "gnat brain", "goofy boy", "Trask-off!", "mushing maniac", "CGC class clown" "Trasker".
BrownStone pack birthday party. "Enough with the pictures already.".
