Fall training next to the Parks Highway on October 16, 2017, the back ground you can see Denali and all her glory on this beautiful clear day! The other day I was running my dogs and looked up, and saw the mountains. Mount Denali or McKinley or whatever you want to call it is in direct line of where I live and its beautiful. Then I looked to the left and saw a swamp full of scrub, pine, birch and an eagle perched in the trees. There was a huge raven kind of following us do

When a musher thinks about fall training, we get excited. It is the start of the season that we enjoy the most! Running dogs! Even though for 5 months of the year that is what I do for a job (TOURS!) starting fall training is always exciting because its just you and the dogs, no more questions, no more people, just you and the dogs! This season is even more exciting because I bought my very first 4 wheeler! 4 wheelers are pretty standard for fall training, any kind of qu

So I wasn't going to have any puppies this year. Nope not gonna do it. I have enough dogs and will have my hands full training them this season. NO more puppies... until there was one... Damn it... Ugh.... Miss Toes was out of a really good accidental breeding between Sir Cole (yep my main man) and a little lady lead dog named Carolina. Nope not gonna do it! But of course one of the little girls has a weird injury around a foot that is discovered when I was doing the de

Here is a good one from last spring that I haven't published yet :) don't worry I'm in the land of electricity and wifi (*well at least LTE cell service for the most part!) so there should be more coming!! March 23 , 2017: As I sit here in my little dry cabin in my underwear (dude its at least 90 degrees in here! and no one stops over unannounced, and if they do I have 50 dogs that act like a security alarm) I'm reflecting a lot over things that have happened in the last se