It’s Dog Fan Club Draw day! Congratulations to Metta Canez who is a fan of Driver. We’ve been waiting all year for Driver to come up as a winner as we had a spare “Driver” mug – so we’ll send Metta the mug plus a glam shot of Driver and … Read More
While 12 dogs were racing the Kobuk and 20 dogs were on the North Slope a few stayed behind with Karolyn to run in teams so the pups could get out again before it got too warm for them. Gravy had his first experience in harness and Karolyn captured his … Read More
It seemed such a shame to just hang up all the harnesses once mushing season was done in Two Rivers. So, twenty SPK dogs, four humans, an arctic oven tent and plenty of supplies set off from the kennel on Monday morning headed for the North Slope of the Brooks … Read More
Bridgett is taking an experienced team with her to Kotzebue for the Kobuk 440 – although they are all rookies in this race! Making the trip to Kotz today are Junior, Kodiak, Chipper, Cayenne, Champ, Clyde, Driver, Five, Jefe, Perky, Felix, and Decaf. See our “The Dogs” Page for more … Read More
It’s Dog Fan Club Draw day! Congratulations to Marilyn Cozzens who is a fan of Gravy. Marilyn wins a copy of Jon and Jona Van Zyle’s beautiful book “Iditarod Memories, 30 Years of Poster Art From the Last Great Race”. In this book Jona writes stories around the posters Jon … Read More
Today was the day… the party is over. It is not longer particularly smart and certainly not dry to run a dog team on a sled from our kennel in Two Rivers anymore this season. After taking 14 dogs out on a sled for a rather icy and adventurous tour … Read More
We’ve still got some stuff to give away! Today we did a quadruple Dog Fan Club draw for a set of signed Yukon Quest and Iditarod Race Guides. Congratulations to Susan McCandless who is a fan of Kodiak, Peach fan Jade Staft, Lucas Koch, a fan of Scooby and Lucas … Read More
Everyone is home – resting and regrouping after Nome. Aliy and Moira took some of the Iditarod team out for a couple of hours last night on the local trails. West of us the trails are still pretty good but we’re not sure how much they have left in them. … Read More
Today’s mission was to get all the dogs back to Anchorage. We set 5am alarms (and 5:10 and again at 5:20) to get down to the dog yard to give them breakfast, pack up all the gear in the sled for shipping and transport all the kennels and dogs the … Read More
