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Scheduled Events 2002/2003
Page Last Updated 1/3/02

Several Tennessee MUSHers work weekends, can't get days off during the week, or have other restrictions on their time.  This list is just events suggested by MUSHers.  If you don't see an event that suits your schedule, suggest an event sleddog@verizon.netIf you can come to an event, than come.  If you can't, than come to the next one.  Or the one after that... (Schedule 2001 & Schedule 2001/2002.)

September, October, November, December, January, February, March, & April

September

(We start carting when the LOW temps drop below 55 degrees...)

9/7 Still hot, a couple of early and short training runs.  See Training Logs.

October

10/6 See MisAdventures of a Southern Dog Driver

10/11 Camp Creek (Spring City, TN) 2-10m Hike, meet 8 am before it gets hot, contact Sidney sleddog@verizon.net (Hike/Cart trail) 

10/12 Crab Orchard-to-Crossville, TN - Rails-To-Trails, 1-10m Hike, meet 8 am EST, contact Sidney sleddog@verizon.net - NEW TRIAL (Possible carting trail) - canceled for lack of participants.  Ran Camp Creek with the cart & 6-dogs -- and wouldn't recommend it to anyone else or do it again <G> - SHS

10/13 Spring City, TN - Pennine Hwy Construction, dirt and gravel, 1-5m Cart Run, meet 8 am CST, contact Sidney sleddog@verizon.net  CHANGE OF ROUTE for Rain now Old Dixie Lee.

10/14 Spring City, TN - Old Dixie Lee again, 5m carting run, meet 8 am EST, contact Sidney sleddog@verizon.net

CHANGE OF PLANS - 10/19 Spring City, TN - Piney River, Cumberland Trail State Park, 2-10m one way, meet 8 am Piney River EST, contact Sidney sleddog@verizon.net NEW TRIAL (Walden's Ridge/Possum Trot closed)

10/20 

10/24-27 WESTERN TN/KY, Land Between the Lakes, contact Nancy SagePack@aol.com, Hiking/Carting/Camping

November

11/2-3

11/9-10

11/16-17 Carting Spring City, contact sleddog@verizon.net 

11/22

Thanksgiving 11/29-12-1, WESTERN TN/KY, Land Between the Lakes, Hiking/Carting/Camping, contact Jeff sleddog719@cs.com 

December

12/4-5 Old Dixie Lee, contact Sidney sleddog@verison.net - snow predicted

12/7-8 Danville, KY, 3rd Annual Southern Exposure, IWPA Weightpull

12/14-15 Cumberland Trail Spring City Section, , contact Sidney sleddog@verison.net

12/21-22 Hebbertsburg Rd, Crab Orchard I-40 exit  -- 22 miles winding, unpopulated, gravel roads, contact Sidney sleddog@verison.net

12/24 Christmas Eve, Old Dixie Lee, contact Sidney sleddog@verison.net

12/29-1/01 New Years Eve Bash Between the Lakes Hiking/Carting/Camping, contact Jeff sleddog719@cs.com 

Upstate NY contact Sidney sleddog@verizon.net CANCELLED

January

New 1/4 - 9 am South Trailhead, 12m gradual downhill hike, Piney River Segment of the Cumberland Trail http://www.cumberlandtrail.org/piney.html (Spring City) contact Sidney sleddog@verizon.net 

1/-5 

New 1/11 - 9 am South Trailhead, 12m gradual downhill hike, Piney River Segment of the Cumberland Trail http://www.cumberlandtrail.org/piney.html (Spring City) contact Sidney sleddog@verizon.net 

Updated 1/11-2 Fourth Annual Great Southern Sled Dog Run - Weaver's Bend AND Wolf Creek Mtn, Cherokee National Forest (Newport, TN) contact Sidney sleddog@verison.net (postponed till February)

New 1/18 Overnight camping trip - 9 am NORTH Trailhead, 10m gradual uphill hike, Piney River Segment of the Cumberland Trail, overnight at Branch Picnic Area, north trailhead, http://www.cumberlandtrail.org/piney.html (Spring City) contact Sidney sleddog@verizon.net 

1/19 - 9 am SOUTH Trailhead 10m gradual downhill

New 1/25 - 9 am South Trailhead, 10m gradual downhill hike, Piney River Segment of the Cumberland Trail http://www.cumberlandtrail.org/piney.html (Spring City) contact Sidney sleddog@verizon.net 

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Proposed Carting/Hiking Legs - Land Between The Lakes in West TN/KY November

Proposed Carting/Hiking Legs - Weaver's Bend -- we're definitely going back (Newport, TN)

Proposed Carting/Hiking Legs - Catoosa Wildlife Management Roads (Crab Orchard, TN)

Proposed Hiking (later Carting) Leg - Spring City, TN, section of the Cumberland Trail

Proposed Hiking (later Carting) Leg - Rails-to-Trails Crab Orchard to Crossville near I-40 (Crab Orchard, TN) 

Proposed Hiking (later Carting) Leg  - Rails-to-Trails Big South Fork (Jamestown, TN)

Proposed Hiking TITLE (not just a leg) -- Max Patch Bald in the Smoky Mountains, TN/NC Description: This will be a 15-mile hike in, overnight camping, and 15-mile hike out.  Lots of shallow streams to cross, uphill the first day, downhill the second day.  Camping is not necessary for legs, but is for title.  Legs: 30-mile + overnight camping Working Pack Dog (WPD) 4 legs. (Newport, TN)

Proposed Excellent Sledding Legs -- Upstate NY on Tug Hill with the Siberian folks

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