Tanner, our helper/handler, raced another kennel's dogs in a two dog scooter dryland event today, placing second behind another friend of ours, Ken Castaldi, who took first place.
Congratulations, guys!
Our 21st year! We have enjoyed sharing the sport of dog sledding with so many people over the years, and thank you! all, so much! We are in a paring down and retirement phase. Our kennel is selling a lot of good, used equipment. If you are looking for something , let us know. Listing coming soon. We are not selling dogs, they are retiring with us.
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Three Teams Today
Give something to a busy kennel to do and it will get done. We ran three teams today, pretty smooth, and easy runs.... Dogs run were : Leader, Buffy, Ruthie, Eos; team and wheel, Kiddo,
Herman, Matilda, Rosie, Sherpa. Buffy is still trail leading, trying to go out the familiar gate and we've taken to going a different route, new trail, to get her to change that habit. Tanner Johnson was today's handler and sometimes driver, and he does a great job. Plus he cleaned the pens AND covered the pontoon, multitalented :)
Saturday, October 29, 2011
Friday, October 28, 2011
Just for fun : Nome webcam
This is the link to the Nome webcam...http://www.visitnomealaska.com/nome-web-cam.html
Always interesting to see either the Bering Sea or the main street, the hours of daylight and the temps... sometimes quite comparable (temps) to Wisconsin.
Always interesting to see either the Bering Sea or the main street, the hours of daylight and the temps... sometimes quite comparable (temps) to Wisconsin.
Thursday, October 27, 2011
A look back
Jenny with Scuba's pups, training for her first race. Scuba, T. Bear, Stardust and Geronimo.
This race started at minus forty degrees. We stood with our teams by the bank thermometer until it reached minus twenty before the race could start. That was a WI Trailblazers race in Land O'Lakes, WI. In 1994 we received Scuba and shortly thereafter her pups were born. We didn't know we would get into racing at that time, but Scuba patiently taught us as we stumbled along as novices.She patiently pulled our large sled by herself as we took our first runs on Millie Hill. On our first run with her, we hit a boulder , dumping me. She was laughing, I'm certain, as she hightailed it back to the truck. There the well experienced dog just sat down and waited for me to hike back.Never was I more grateful to see a dog as she had miles she could have run in that vast land , but she had headed back to the truck.
Jenny Van Marter, skilled young horsewoman, was the first trainee at SPK . She arrived every day before going to her job , hooked up a four dog team, ran out toward Florence and returned. She was steadfast in her training as well which led to her first race being her first victory on sleds. Jenny now raises her children and horses, but she's welcome to come and run sleds again, any time.
The link to our first story on kennel history is the following: http://www.seniorcorrespondent.com/
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Finally, weather to run
On Thursday we will run a nice team, eight or ten. Today was our veterinary visit with rabies vaccines and checks of a few dogs. All went smoothly. All running dogs have OK to run. Stay tuned for run photos.
Article published, thank you, Mallory!
Senior Correspondent has published an article about our life with retired racing sled dogs.
www.seniorcorrespondent.com
Our thanks to Mallory at Signal Hill for her shepherding of us through this process.
We hope the article might get others interested in giving lifetime homes to retirees... retirees with retirees .
www.seniorcorrespondent.com
Our thanks to Mallory at Signal Hill for her shepherding of us through this process.
We hope the article might get others interested in giving lifetime homes to retirees... retirees with retirees .
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