Smokin’ Aces
Meet the Super Dogs of Matt Hall's Smokin' Aces Kennel.
Kennel Spotlight: Matt Hall and the Smokin’ Aces
A three-mile long sideroad snakes through the birch and spruce forest off the Chena Hot Springs Road, about an hour out of Fairbanks, Alaska. Three miles – that’s easy-peasy on a nice fall day, but I imagined the herculean effort it takes to keep the road open in the wintertime….
Kennel Spotlight: Alaskan Wildstyle Racing Kennel of Aaron Burmeister
Aaron Burmeister, 45, was born and raised into a mushing family in Nome. Both parents were immersed in dog mushing and became involved in running dogs through Howard Farley in the early 1970s. “I grew up raising and racing dogs,” said Aaron. His father Richard raced the Fur Rendezvous World…
The 2021 Kobuk 440: A race pummeled by storms
The 2021 Kobuk 440: A race pummeled by storms The Kobuk 440 is named the toughest dog race above the Arctic Circle for a reason. The race takes teams from the coastal town of Kotzebue across Kobuk Lake and up the Kobuk River to the village of Kobuk and…
BEST PLACES TO LIVE AND MUSH: ALASKA
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 have something for any dog musher. And that’s what lures and keeps mushers here decade after decade.From Iditarod champions and…
NUTRITION: RENDERING SENSE INTO FEEDING FAT
Last month’s article on dietary strategies for distance racing revived the age old relationship between high fat diets and performance in racing sled dogs.In a way it’s like re-inventing the wheel; it may seem like a futile practice, but each time we do this we refine our understanding of the…