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- Virginia Tech News – Dog sledding a passion project for Virginia Tech alumna
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News From Squid Acres
Summer Camp for the Dogs
This summer we sent some of our dogs up to the Denver Glacier outside of Skagway, Alaska with our good friend and great dog driver, Megan. Here they will run a 2 mile loop for the tourists throughout the summer and will come back to us in early September. I just went...
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 while...
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....
Migrating with the caribou herd – Headed to North Slope of Brooks Range
It is time again! Time to pack the truck with our strongest dogs, a couple sleds, and gear for 10 days of living on the open tundra. This is what we live for each year, travelling with the dogs in the arctic while trying to procure the years worth of caribou...
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...