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Denali National Park has five new sled dog puppies! Born to mama Merlyn, the pups—Storm, Squall, Graupel, Fog, and Dew—will ...
The Weather Litter, as park officials have dubbed the five pups, earned their meteorological monikers in honor of a historic ...
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. According to Huson, sled dogs generally have an ...
Sled dog races don’t have lucrative jackpots ... who was seemingly headed for victory as late as Monday. He had a five-hour lead until his dog team stopped running. Petit said one dog ...
Poland Spring Resort celebrates the Seppala Siberian Sleddog’s official designation as the official state dog of Maine. The ...
"I love today that the lead sled dogs led the way ... where Marshon Lattimore will face his former team. The draft will be held at the National Mall when it heads to Washington, D.C., for the ...
The Ray, Minnesota, musher and her eight-dog team crossed the finish ... greets his wife’s lead dogs at the finish of the Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon. Altemus, who left the final checkpoint ...
and I wanted to get my own dog team. So yeah, they got me a dog sled for Christmas. I started with four of her old lead dogs.” Blake’s mushing experience started later in life, but he learned ...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome faced a bleak winter. It was hundreds of miles from anywhere, cut off by the frozen sea and unrelenting blizzards, and under siege from a ...
“When a lead dog of a sled team grows old, the Eskimos shoot him,” an Alaskan had warned grimly. And though he still begins his day at 6 a.m. with 30 minutes of calisthenics and an icy ...