Ok...so, dressage is my usual focus, but lately I have been hacking on our family's pony to keep him in shape.  That has lead to buying a harness and learning how to drive, and the harness has led to driving him in front of a little sled on the snow, and that has lead to thinking about skiing behind him.  Why???  Because it is  a welcome break from shoulder-in, leg yield, and dressage tests.  That is still happening in the arena with our dressage horse, but what I have been doing with the pony is just plain fun.  And...hours of hacking through bush and up and down ravines has improved my dressage seat-believe it or not.  The question is, who out there knows anything about skijoring?

I'm interested in learning about type of skiis (downhill it seems is the poplular choice) and especially about  the necessary tack.  Ideally, I would like to be able to drive and ski at the same time, but of course the hilarious prospect of finding myself under the pony, skiis and tackle all a tangle presents itself to me...funny, but predictably unsafe.

Any information would be welcome.