Sled training

foto: Nørlund, the first sunday in 2010. unfurtenli the trail was not safe enough to sled (dip traks)... The dogs from behind: Vacke and Kaise (hidden), Isa - Pavlo, Juno - Shika, Vince (single), Kebne and Bree, point. Tanna and Seppe, lead. Tanks to Allan Lumholtz for this fine foto.

In last week-end we trained on sled in Gludsted with 8 dogs, Saturday we drived 19 km in 48.16 minutes on a fine trail we had to go twice, sunday we did a little shorter trip on 15 km.

Vacke, Vince and Seppe did the trail one time (9 km) with me (100 kg) at 28 minutes at Saturday and Sunday together with the others on 15 km.

HAPPY TRAILS in 2010

foto: the dogs eating meat in the snow after well done training period and "Nytårssamling" in Kompedal.

Wellcome to year 2010. It is now 100 years since the Siberian dog, later to be known as the Siberian Husky, finished first in the legendary John "Iron Man" Johnson team in the 1910 All Alaska Sweepstakes.

On the Siberian Husky Club of Amerika You can read: "On the strength of their showing of speed and, particularly, endurance under the most trying conditions, Fox Maule Ramsay, a young Scotsman then in Nome and a competitor himself in the 1909 race, went to Siberia in the summer of 1909. Travelling up the Anadyr River to the trading settlement of Markovo, Ramsay procured around 60 of the best specimens of the breed he could find. He entered three teams of Siberians in the 1910 All Alaska Sweepstakes race, one for each of his uncles and one he drove himself. The team entered in the name of Col. Charles Ramsay and driven by John "Iron Man" Johnson, a Swedish Finn, came in first with an elapsed time of 74 hours, 14 minutes, 37 seconds, the best ever time for the 408 mile race held annually through 1917."

HAPPY TRAILS in 2010...