Celebrating Aliy’s 10th year running the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, Aliy, Allen and the SP Kennel Dogs are offering three Natural Extremes trips on the Seward Peninsula. These trips will be run after the Iditarod, beginning in Nome and exploring the historical trail to the Pilgrim Hot Springs. This … Read More
In Part 2, Aliy describes both the physical therapy run in general and individual dogs on the rehab teams in particular. She does all this, of course, while mushing, filming and observing dogs all at the same time. As they say, “Don’t try this at home!”
As you know, a few dogs were “dropped” from the teams during the CB300. None for any real or obvious injuries, but showing enough signs of discomfort that the mushers made the decisions to drop them in the interest of the dogs’ best welfare. Aliy talked about all of the … Read More
Winning the CB300 Humanitarian award is truly an honor for all of us here at SP Kennel, but we have to admit we’re not solely responsible for winning it. Nutrition plays such an important part in the dogs’ overall health and fitness that we wanted to do something special to … Read More
With the end of last week being a couple of weeks after the CB300 and a couple of weeks before the Denali Doubles, the training schedule called for the dogs to have a good, long workout in the hills. As you know, however, we have had practically no snow here … Read More
Allen, Aliy, Doug and I were in the Kennel’s basement / shop the other day, when all of a sudden Aliy said, “Hey! Let’s do a Pupdate!” The next thing you know we had four pups (Scooter, Shmoe, Sissy and Spoog) plus four adult dogs (Tig, Stella, Remington and Girlfriend) … Read More
We weren’t planning to start “getting into” the upcoming Denali Doubles for another week or so. Partly because we don’t have a lot to say about it yet, but mostly because we don’t really feel like we have it all figured out. But, many of you seem quite keen to … Read More
The CB300 is behind us, and our coverage of it here on the Dog Log is complete. It’s time to start focusing on the Denali Doubles race, coming up on February 11th. A number of you have asked for some explanation of the Denali Doubles. The truth is, we’re really … Read More
At several points in our CB300 video debrief series, we referred to our “race plans.” It occurred to me that you might like to see what we’re talking about, so I asked Aliy if I could post them now that the race is over and there’s nothing “secret” about them … Read More
