Photos from the Arctic 2011

The dog line at our camp. we were set up on a lake and drilled hole in ice for dog water.   The team bringing in another load of dog food.  There are 100’s of caribou right over that ridge.. now what to do with 26 raging dogs.  The teams chillin...

Arctic Adventure 2011

Hi all, We returned last weekend from another amazing trip to the artic north slope of the Brooks Range. We spent a little over a week living with the dogs out on the tundra, following the great caribou herds while we exploring the mountains and valleys. What a blast....

Valley Funale

Temperatures this past weekend were very warm and made it difficult to run dogs in the day time. Saturday we decided not to go out for a long run in the hot sun, but instead to head out to Two Rivers for the Valley Funale. We entered 2 teams in the 6 dog/ 10 mile...

Eureka!.. it’s spring break in Eureka!

So we decided to load up all the dogs and all of Thomas and Megan’s dogs (~40) and head out for spring break. Since we had the old and the young we decided to base out of the Wild and Free Mushing camp in Eureka, AK. Thanks to Brent, Kyla and Casey for the...

Spring is springing in the Northlands!

Spring is coming fast. We have a little over a month left to run the dogs before the snow leaves so we are getting out there and making the most of it. The days are getting longer with about 11 hours of daylight now and it is getting quite warm in the afternoons....

When motors fail.. drift busting the old fashioned way…

All winter long we have been begging for snow.. and we finally got it. In fact, we got a whole winter of snow in less than a week. We received about 2 feet of snow in 3 different storms in less than a week. The first storm left some nice fluffy snow for the dogs to...

Recovered?

Well maybe not fully recovered…We are still playing with a bug we managed to pick up in Pelly. But we are back to running dogs and happy to report that everyone is happy and healthy and running sound. The dogs that were dropped were dragging Cody around before I...

Busted by the mounties for mushing without a license

So we have had a little drama this week, that I haven’t mentioned until we got it all cleared up.. Back in Whitehorse before the race we were late to the mushers meeting. Since we were late, Paige didn’t get certain paperwork collected from her....

Little doggies running on to McCabe Creek

Paige left Carmacks this morning at about 4:30 am with 10 screaming dogs.  She decided to drop Ursa and TJ Maxx because they were not as amped to go as the others and were slowing the team down a bit. She left in 3rd place and hopefully she can maintain the position...

Congrats to Paige.. finished in 6th place with 8 happy dogs!

Paige is in and the team looks great! We are proud of the dogs and all they have accomplished. Now is time for naps and dog care.. Paige will update us with some tails from the trail later as she recovers from her 4 hours of sleep since race started Saturday.. stay...