With the Copper Basin 300 Mile Sled Dog Race coming up this weekend, we plan to give you as much in-depth coverage as possible. As part of this, we want to give you a lot of pre-race coverage as well. I sat down with Allen the other day and video … Read More
In yesterday’s segment of Aliy’s interview, she talked about the Yukon Quest. So, I thought this might be a good time to share with you an episode from our “Training On…” series which Aliy recently filmed on a local portion of the Yukon Quest trail. Sadly, some parts of the … Read More
How did you spend Christmas night? Aliy, Allen and the dogs spent it by heading out for what’s called a 50-50. That’s a 50 mile run, a 5 hour rest then another 50 mile run. This video offers you a look at their preparation, and some nice footage of the … Read More
You may recall that we began this White Mountains mini-series running dogs on the trail with Aliy, and that seems a good way to wrap it up as well. As I was editing this footage, it struck me as a little odd-looking, like maybe Aliy’s camera got stuck in some … Read More
In the previous episode of our White Mountains mini-series, you saw a time-lapse view of the Team setting up. The next step in the process is harnessing and hooking up the dogs, but we’ve recently posted a pretty in-depth series on that subject so I decided to offer you something … Read More
Part 4 of our White Mountains mini-series started out as another time time-lapse look at what it’s like when the teams arrive “on location” and get ready to run. Although the video looked useful for illustrating the overall process of dropping and feeding the dogs, sorting gear and sleds, laying … Read More
In Part 3 of our White Mountains mini-series, you’ll see that there’s actually a lot of walking involved in sled dog mushing. Thankfully, most of that walking takes place at the Kennel and not out on the trail. But when you think about Aliy, Allen and Bridgett making 36 trips … Read More
Part 2 of our White Mountains mini-series offers you a time-lapse overview of the dog truck loading process. The “real-time” video is about 20 minutes long, so this video is speeded up to 8x normal speed. It goes by pretty quickly, but we bet some of our sharp-eyed Dog Log … Read More
You may recall that over the long Thanksgiving weekend your SP Kennel Team loaded up in the trucks and went to the White Mountains. Partly, this was a way to prepare for racing season by practicing the whole “pack-load-drive” routine. Also, it was a way to get away from training … Read More
After yesterday’s peaceful, poetic video post, it’s back to business here at SP Kennel. The temperature has dropped again and we still haven’t had any new snow, so the trails are all very firm. This can be hard on the dogs’ feet, so Aliy has been putting booties on all … Read More
