If there is one thing that Coloradans love as much as the outdoors, it may be dogs. But sometimes, the adventures humans plan — from summiting Colorado’s 14er peaks to backpacking through the ...

Gunnar Kaasen and his dog Balto, the heroic dog-sled team leader, sit for a portrait in the early 1920s. They were part of a group of mushers and sled dogs that braved frigid conditions to bring ...

The lead dog, a powerful and eager husky, had locked onto something in the periphery and taken the rest of the team with him. It happened so fast that the crowd barely had time to react ...

Hall’s team was led by his dogs Dyea and Qivik, who he called the perfect pair to lead him into Nome. Dyea, he said, is “just this rock star, push-button leader.” “He'll do anything ...

GRAND PORTAGE — Erin Aili has won her second John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon. The Ray, Minnesota, musher and her eight-dog team crossed the finish line Tuesday just after 10 a.m. at Grand ...

I knew that. But half a lifetime of trapping in the North caused me to stake my life on my own judgment. I should have listened when the wind and the weather and the instinct of my lead dog told me I ...

Casual fans of sled dog racing might have noticed that the winner of the weekend’s marquee Kuskokwim 300 race, also known as the K300, was local hero Pete Kaiser, from the Delta’s regional hub ...

Chingliak said he got a couple of dogs from Williams and started his own small team when he was 14. He now has 10 dogs and placed 12th in last weekend’s Dash.

Gunnar Kaasen and his dog Balto, the heroic dog-sled team leader, sit for a portrait in the early 1920s. They were part of a group of mushers and sled dogs that braved frigid conditions to bring ...

Musher Ken Chezik and his team race along the Alaska Sled Dog Racing Association in Anchorage, with his lead dogs Beech and Fog. CREDIT: Britt Coon.