Robin did it again. He made it through another winter. He still honors his hardy arctic breed by crossing the cold floor barefoot every morning from bed to food dish. He loves collecting pats on the head and ear scratches [...]
After a harrowing crossing of Norton Sound in this year’s Iditarod Race, I had been apprehensive of the next run from Koyuk to Elim, but it proved uneventful. My team and I arrived at the village of Elim in fine [...]
Pilot was my up-and-coming star in 2016 and my standout lead dog from 2017, doing more than his share in our record-setting Iditarod effort that year. He helped me train a fast team for 2018 but went home from the [...]
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking after the Iditarod Race, as usual. Every year I spend several months thinking about what happened this year and several more months getting ready for the next one. I’ve run 26 Iditarod races, [...]
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 [...]
Two Week Training trip to Alpine Lodge on the Denali Highway First time in 25 years! Janine goes mushing 12/1 Mitch, Janine and Grayson left our snow-free kennel in Sterling with our Anchorage Chrysler Dodge Ram Truck, trailer, snow machine, [...]
MindWise Musher by Mitch Seavey Life Stream As an Iditarod Musher I meet and talk with a lot of people. It’s expected, of course, at events, presentations, and races but hey, in the convenience store? Standing at the urinal? [...]
