Devon and Tyler Peterson are no strangers to skijoring — an extreme winter sport in which a horse and rider pull a skier on a tow rope over a snowy course with challenges like jumps, slalom gates and rings that the rider or skier must collect.
What they’re not used to is skijor racing in the Treasure Valley, and certainly not in 50-degree weather when the only snow on the ground has been painstakingly scraped together with the use of snow guns.
The father and daughter arrived Thursday at the Ford Idaho Center in Nampa with a trailer full of horses. They’re originally from Bellevue in the Wood River Valley, though Devon is studying nursing at Boise State University, and they’ve been part of the sport for decades…