Location: Lodi, Wisconsin
Occupation: Writer
Next Race or Adventure: Making a Movie
We got the chance to sit down with Deb ‘Danny’ Glenn in Wisconsin as part of our first Team and Trail Tour in the Upper Midwest. She has a beautful home situated on a lake in ‘mushing country’ near Madison.
More on her next adventure: A Disney artist is illustrating and the director of animation for a movie that’s being produced based on my Ashka adventure books, spelled: A-A-S-H-K-A, Ashka adventures, but the movie is called Ashka. All right. of the Heart. Journey of the Heart.
Socials: Deb on Facebook
Well, right now, I don’t see any races in my future. I’ve reached the pinnacle of 20 years in dog mushing. I’ve been about 25,000 miles on a dog team. Over 10,000 of those miles I have logged.
So, I know where I was and which dogs I had and what positions and so forth. Right now, if I got to go on some sort of an expedition, a journey, and I might be able to do that next spring in Norway, that would be a dream come true. Okay, so potentially some type of expedition coming up. Boy, that would just be remarkable.
Now you’re gonna make me cry. I always wanted to drive my dog team from Anchorage to home. A lot of us have that dream.
“Pete!”
A good book and a cup of coffee in the morning.
Finish what you start.
My favorite sled is a tag sled looking thing, so it’s a little bit shorter, but it’s made in the old ways with the leather straps on the stanchions and the driving bow and everything. So it’s not lightweight like a Hans Gatt or I’m not even familiar with some of the up and coming amazing sleds, but I just like the old fashioned stuff.
Yeah the biggest blunder Came during dog mushing when I used to
Try to have an uneventful run. But it never happens. So the moment in time and what I learned was that stupidity is a prerequisite for this sport. You’re never going to have an uneventful run. And that’s just part of the process.
So once I learned that, put that into my noggin, I was easier on myself. I thought, you know what? You’re going to have a dog tangle when you, you know, or you’re going to forget your headlamp and coming home by the light of the moon. Of course, that’s not a bad thing either, coming home by the light of the moon.
I used to try to prepare and think in advance and be proactive about anything that could happen, you know, very strategic. It never worked. So, learning is just sort of roll with the punches.
My physical ability now. I broke every bone in my left leg, a sled dog doing what sled dogs do. And I don’t have the same agility that I used to have.
My best advice for young mushers is never let go of the sled. That is probably the pinnacle advice, I guess.
Mushing or not happiness is peace.
Going up the chimney called Deer Creek in Montana because there wasn’t any room for error. Yeah, it was a sheer drop off. Yeah, I say you said it was a sheer cliff.
Heights.
Dried cranberries and nuts.
The oneness with the dogs, nature, and God.
[Just being silly] “Get married. Bill.”
