After 5.5 hours of rest, the team left The Point Lodge checkpoint at 12:27am. Aliy has all 12 team mates with her. The CB300 website says of this next leg: “From the Lake Louise checkpoint on the southern edge of the lake, the race trail crosses over Lake Louise itself … Read More
Aliy and team arrived into The Point Lodge checkpoint at 6:57pm local time. Their run time was 8 hours 33 mins. Big ups to the handler crew for being ready to roll as soon as they arrived, given that the didn’t know where they were on the GPS tracker. … Read More
All teams are on the trail in the 2020 Copper Basin 300 and are headed towards Lake Louise on the first leg of the race. Aliy and her team, led out by Commando and Junior, ran out of the chute looking strong and are headed towards The Point Lodge – … Read More
Aliy had a hard time choosing just 12 athletes to bring with her on this race. The training squad is strong at this time of year and everyone is still in the running for races later in the season. As the CB300 is “only” 300 miles long (although the toughest … Read More
The team made it safely down to Glennallen ready for the start of the CB300 Saturday morning at 10am. It is cold. It’s really cold, and forecast to stay cold for the duration of the race. All mushers and handlers will be well prepared for the weather and you can … Read More
Okay… the dog truck is packed… except for dogs and humans. LOTS of dog jackets, blankets, booties and human long underwear. We are ready for a chilly race.
The second Saturday in January is coming up fast! The Copper Basin 300 kicks off on Saturday, 11th January at 10am local time. It is one of the kennel’s favourite races and we have had great success in this race with Allen being an six-time champion and Aliy having several … Read More
Allen made it official this week by signing up for the 2020 Yukon Quest. 63 days and counting… We are thrilled that we will now have 2 mushers and 26 dogs on the Yukon Quest trail (Karolyn for the first 300 miles.) We obviously have much dog training, human conditioning … Read More
Dogs and humans at SP Kennel are training and conditioning for the season ahead. What’s the plan, you ask? So far, the only races that we have signed up for are: Aliy has entered the Iditarod Karolyn has entered the Yukon Quest 300 But our Mushing Calendar has several more … Read More
In Episode 25 you first find the team only 7 miles from the finish line. We had just descended Cape Nome and are traveling on the flats along the Bering Sea. The second half of this episode is only 3 miles from the finish. It is incredibly exciting to reach this … Read More
