Located just a few miles outside the town of Seward, Exit Glacier is part of Kenai Fjords National Park, and is the only section of the park accessible by road. The glacier is an arm of the vast Harding Icefield, [...]
For the second year in a row, Mitch Seavey has sent his lead dog Pilot home from #iditarod early. Mitch left Pilot with the vets on day 2, only slightly further than last year's day 1 separation. Both times it's been a [...]
"We were circling out there...there was no trail and markers everywhere." Aliy Zirkle was first into the Iditarod checkpoint, but had a very difficult run. Not only was she breaking trail, but also had to deal with a poorly marked trail. [...]
Most of the teams are on their 24 hour break, so this is your designated town day. You have until roughly 8pm Alaska time to do anything that requires being away from a computer. Nicolas Petit and Joar Leifseth Ulsom [...]
Tuesday morning saw eleven teams arrive in Nikolai within 3 1/2 hours, and a steady stream coming up from Rohn. By all accounts the trail is hard packed and bumpy, with teams posting very fast running times. Mitch arrived in [...]
If you would prefer to read instead of watching the video. Right now, we're in what you'd call fall training, and we're kind of doing a transition between summertime and wintertime. Of course, all summer long, we train [...]
If you’ve been around mushing very much, you may have heard a musher exclaim: “My dogs were so strong I was standing on the brakes with both feet all the way…” So, some of us decided we [...]
Last weekend four teams from our kennel ran the Tustumena 200 Race in the Caribou Hills. We all completed the course, so combined with their previous race experience, Ryan Santiago and Grayson Bruton are now both officially qualified for the [...]
Blog (January 23, 2019) With the warm weather the last few days our trails have, as the saying goes, gone to pot. I’m not sure what that saying means in the State of Alaska these days, but probably not what [...]
Many children around the world grow up with dogs in their lives. Whether pets or working members of the family business, dogs and kids go together like peanut butter and jelly, with laughs and licks and a sense of companionship [...]
