Category: Mushing

Saturday was Day 11 of our Yukon Quest tour – the final full day. It was a day to see some Yukon wildlife, and one last look at the world of dog sledding. Our first stop was at the Yukon Wildlife Preserve, which opened early for us and had...

On Friday, I drove my guests down to Lake Laberge for a day of dog sledding with Cathers Adventures. That despite this weather forecast and many comments online about staying inside and keeping pets indoors! Arctic gear had been rented for each of our guests to make this adventure...

Princess Cruises has just started a new blog called “50 Essential Experiences”, which over the next 50 weeks will describe what Princess’ destination experts feel are the things that you must experience during your life. This week’s Essential Experience story is about the helicopter dog sledding [archived by The...

At about 1:30 this afternoon, Hans Gatt and 9 dogs crossed the Yukon Quest finish line in downtown Whitehorse, annihilating the previous record time. His time of 9 days and 26 minutes was 23 hours faster than the previous record! The is the normal view at the finish line...

The lead teams in the Yukon Quest will cross the finish line in downtown Whitehorse in a few hours, and I hope to be down there with my camera. Yesterday I volunteered to take 3 checkpoint volunteers up to Carmacks and Pelly Crossing, and the photos below are from...

This year, for the first time in several years, I’ll be home for the start of the Yukon Quest on February 14th so Cathy and I can both go to it (oh yeah, I’ll be home for Valentine’s Day too 🙂 ). In this year’s Quest, my friend Michelle...

This was an experiment that didn’t work. Kayla just wasn’t into being a sled dog and I don’t have the patience to try to convince her that it’s fun (she’s also getting arthritic so not a good idea anyway). Monty and I will go back to skijoring this winter....