Date archives: November 19, 2010

Check out this new promotional video from Corey Nutrition, the makers of Inukshuk dog food.

Alaska magazine and Fur Rendezvous have teamed up to bring one lucky winner and three guests to Anchorage, Alaska.Enter to win the Grand Prize 4-day trip for four to the 2011 Fur Rendezvous – Anchorage’s Premier Winter Festival.For more information and to enter, click here:http://www.akrondy.com/

FAIRBANKS — Sandy Besser, manager at the Fairbanks Animal Shelter, was surprised Monday by a phone call from Tonya Mackey, wife of distance musher Lance Mackey. Tonya told her they would be dropping off 2,000 pounds of dog food the next day.Tuesday, the Mackeys’ truck came by the shelter overflowing…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Stephanie Lyons Warner Communications 978-998-4957 stephanie@warnerpr.com EAGLE PACK® NATURAL PET FOOD SPONSORS “THE LAST GREAT RACE ON EARTH®” Eagle Pack Named the Official Dog Food of the 2011 Iditarod® Trail Sled Dog Race (Tewksbury, MA and Anchorage, AK – November 15, 2010) – With more than…

The monumental changes in mushing since the 1991 edition of our book ‘Dog Driver’ appeared made the job of revising it both exciting and challenging. Countless additional miles on the runners and our ongoing research had increased our knowledge, but to ensure depth and accuracy we spent hours interviewing top…

A skilled dog driver and team make mushing look easy. Synchronized pace, smooth gait, seeming telepathic bond between man (or woman) and canine—this team is a beautiful sight at the start or finish of a race and along the trails.It’s not a matter of type—long distance, sprint, mid-distance, or recreational—a…

From recent advancements in nutritional science to the use of space age composites to build sleds, we can assuredly say that the modern sled dog and musher are safer out on the trail and our dogs are healthier. One of these recent advancements is the use of GPS for mushing….

With the powerful commands Højre!, Venstre!, Hoooole … (left, right, stop) NCO Morton Petersen will guide his sleddogs over the snowy coastlines of Northeast-Greenland this winter for the first time. For over 60 years the Sirius Sledge Patrol, a special military unit, guards the Danish sovereignty over the world’s largest…

The 49th state offers a variety of terrain and options for any musher. Whether it’s cold and flat, warm and hilly, snowy or icy, Alaska’s varied terrain and unpredictable weather has something for any dog musher. And that’s what lures and keeps mushers here decade after decade. From Iditarod champions…

Featured in the Nov/Dec 2010 Issue:►Sonny: 2005. Jack x Blue. 44lb-Male. Sonny is the smallest dog on my team. Bantu, one of my all time best leaders, is in his lines on both sides, (Manfred Brida’s breeding, from Austria). Havana’s sister Milos is his grandmother, another of my great leaders…