Lacamas Valley SDT
A year ago, I accepted an invitation from my good sheepdoggin' friends to fly up to Portland, OR and observe their areas premiere trial, Lacamas Valley. Leslie and Dennis Capik picked me up from the airport and ushered me around. And I had the distinct pleasure of staying with Mindy Mayar and helped host her traditional Friday night shin-dig. About half way through this amazing trial 2011, I became very cranky. My mentor DD sent me to scribe on the PN field and put me to work. I am not a very good sit still and observe kind of person. I'd rather be helping out somewhere. The whole event was a wonderful experience and I made a goal that within a year I would bring a dog up and participate. After our DL experience at the beginning of the summer, I was highly suspicious that we might need to take a hiatus and postpone that goal for at least another year. I did take a month in the middle of summer essentially off. Well, I backed off and went back to bas