Spring training

foto: Vince and Vacke in front, yongones diging in the back...

Springtime is a lot of fun in the play yard, trips to the town, good bones and of course training on the track and a good rest.

Our yongones are doing fine progress in front of the "Dyck". They still learning importent stuff like how to behave in the harness. Also springtraining for the adults is importent to keep them in good shape and learn the yearlings how to lead a team.

Still Going Strong...

foto: Karsten Grønås og Peik i 1973 som Nordisk Mester.

I Dag er det 40 år siden den legendariske Peik blev født hos Karsten Grønås, hvis kennel dengang lå i Norge...

Peik var uforlignlig, Karsten beskriver ham som en der var glad for alle. Foran slæden var den en langsom starter, men udholdende og god afslutter. Peik var også en fantastisk "open field" leder.

I 1969 fødes Peik i Karstens første kuld, han var efter Alaskan's Tannik of Anadyr ud af Laika.

Peiks vigtigste afkom må være Ylva av Vargevass, ud af Talitte of Kolyma. Ylva fødte den første store stjerne til kennelen - Kermit av Vargevass, efter Yeso Pack's el Diablo.

Men det der er med til at gøre denne historie til et eventyr er, at Karsten Grønås stadig er "Still Going Strong": for 2 uger siden afsluttede han Amundsen race (fra Østersund, Sverige til Rørås, Norge - 420 km) og alle 12 hunde i spandet har Peik i deres stamtavle.

Det har forøvrigt alle 32 hunde i kennelen i dag...

Peik 2010

Springtime

foto: the older ones, Kozak and Cody enjoying the sun.

In the summer 2005 we bought Vindsnabbe's Coyote "Cody" to our kennel. We needed a good leaddog to show the others how to pass strange teams.

One of the best way for a dog to learn is when the younger can see how the older dogs do. Just the same as in the wolff pack.

Fäboddraget

foto: view out over Siljan from Fäboddraget 30 km on saturday. Dogs: Seppe and Bree in lead, Tanna, point, Isa and Juno, Team and Kaise and Kebne, Wheele.

Fäboddraget is an open race in the area near Koppången, arranged by Svensk Polarhund Klub.

The race is on 15 and 30 km and have pulka and slede classes. The compatitions start all together at same time in each class.

Unfortunately most of the trail was too soft, so specely Seppe sank too much down in the snow and was of course sore in his legs, therefor I scratch. Even we had a good experience and were only 25 sec. after the farstets alaskan huskie team (2.13.47).

Training

foto: The dogs on a training trip in Gludsted Plantage.

Trying to keep the dogs fit before we are going to Sweden again. The 4 yearlings from 2007, after Ukko av Vargevass are learning very fast. I ges the first training periode is very importent for the puppies.

Puppies '09

foto: Karsten Grønås has just started in the Polardistance 300-'05, Ewok goes in right point position. Leaddogs is Nathan av Vargevas (after Ukko) and Eddie (after Houston av Vargevass)

An interesting dog, who did a great job in team Vargevass, true an importent periode, is Enok "Ewok", 28.10.'99, after Mørkki av Vargevass, bred by Bjørn Roger Olsen, Norway. In the first years he worked as a team-dog in among others:
Femund500-'02, rank 11 out of 25 teams, best purebreed
Polardistance300-'03, open class, 1. place.
Femund500-'04, rank 16. out of 38 teams, best purebreed.
Polardistance300-'04, open class, 1. place.

Hes last to years in the mainteam was in lead or point position.

Femund600-'05, rank 12. out of 44 teams, best purebreed

Polardistance300-'05, open class, 1. place.

and finaly: Finnmarksløpet1000-'06, rank 13. out of 23 teams, in the longest sleeddog-race in Europe.

Karsten tell about Ewok: "We thought Ewok's playfulness wouldn't make him a suitable leader, but we were wrong. He has turned out to be a very steady and serious leader who has lead the team to the finish of both Femundlopet (12th) and Polar Distans (1st) of 2005 and for most of the Finnmarkslöpet 2006."

Home again

foto: Andreas Nymark and his team, Nørlund autumn 2008...

Our two older dogs had to stay home, while we had fun in Sweden. They were visiting our frend, Andreas Nymark, hes team is from left: A'Tebs Winook and Wick (out of A'Tebs Emily, she is after Micky av Vargevass), lead, Lindane's Aragorn "Argo" and Team Vacha Rover, point, Wyugas Asterix "Spike" and Donkey, team, Darwin and Dark, wheele.....

Working dogs

foto: Bree and Kebne, lead, Tanna and Isa, point, Juno, Kaise and Seppe (alone), team, Vince and Vacke (hidden) wheele.

With over 1000 km in their legs, the dogs was prepared to do a good job in the snow, well knowing I have 4 yearlings on the team. We did severel trips on 25 km, and al in al they ran 170 km (GPS) with Bree in lead (every day), Seppe and Kebne changed as co-lead.
Drevdagen 2008

Drevdagen

foto: The dogs waiting for the right signal...

We spend two weeks in Sweden in the wonderful Drevdagen with a lot of other mushers. A nice flat at kennel Wyugas, owned by Beat and Domenique Widmer, was our home. From their place we could go directly out on severel 100 km of fine scooter tracks with sleds and dogs...
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Team Vacha Star, "Grynna"

foto: Karsten Grønås, kennel Vargevass, Vintersamlingen 2005, MDO, 1.pl... with Putin av Vargevass and Eddie in lead, Ewok and Nathan av Vargevass (after Ukko) in point.

In May 2008 we partisipaited in Norsk Siberian Husky Klub's Specialutstilling in Finnskogen, with Tanna (1JK,2JKK) and A. Bree (1AK), with 89 com'petitors. In breedclass 4 dogs, (SCH and NCH Koryak, Minto, Yanna, '04 and Tanna, '07) after Ukko av Vargevass out of Team Vacha Star "Grynna" got 1AK, 1OPPDK, HP. Judge, Karsten Grønås.
The future of the kennel are running middledistanc races in Norway and Sweden, with 10 - 14 dogs in training...

Future

foto: Dogs, from right, Kebne, Seppe, Tanna, Bree, Isa, Grynna, Kaise, Juno, Vacke og Vince, training in the fall 2008, Nørlund.

In 2005 we visit severel kennels in Sweden, by reason of having more dogs. First we got Vindsnabbes Coyote, "Cody", '97, (leaddog), from, Söra Åhlund, kennel Vento Articos, in the summer.

In the fall we visit Eva og Peter Mårtensson, kennel Vindsnabbe. We buyed a litter after Vindsnabbe's Sirocko, '95 out of Vindsnabbes Gnista, '01. From this litter we got Juno, '06.

Another of the puppies (Jenka) came to Bo and Caroline Hoffmann Jönsson, kennel Awangas. They had mated Akira with Vindsnabbe's Blizzard, from Inge Christoffersson, Kvärnsjö. From this litter we got Bree, '05.

Kennel Awanga's got also a litter from Vindsnabbe's Bianca and Barney av Vargevass, from were we got Seppe, '05.

When we visit kennel Vindsnabbe in the fall we got four adult vindsnabbe-dogs with os back:

It was Dacke and Dixie, '97 (Vindsnabbe's Patriot - Vindsnabbe's Frigga) who came to Nina and Frederik Filander, kennel Arktisk Storm. Dixie mated Isslottett's Zeb, the leader on the kennel, in 2006.

Robin, '95, who was the third dog, came to Katarina Lindberg, kennel Lindane, and mated Vento Articos Exy, a Cody daughter. From this litter we got Aragorn, "Argo", '05, he stay by Andreas Nymark, Denmark.

The fourth dog, Vindsnabbe's Bebop, '95 (Vindsnabbe's Zingo - Skyfri av Seppalaska), came to Beat and Domenique Widmar, kennel Wyugas, Drevdagen, and breeded Vindnabbe's Gaija (sister to Gnista) for second time. From this litter we got, "Vince", '05. Bebop was a wery appreciated dog on the kennel, Vindsnabbe's Bianca was hes sister on kennel Awangas.

In 2007 we were so fortunate to buy Team Vacha Star "Grynna", '01, after Vox Celesta's Fox-X out of Vindsnabbe's Mistral, from Anders and Agneta Hörnlund, kennel Vänervind, Sweden. In 2004 they breeded her with Ukko av Vargevass and got 4 good puppies.

We breeded her again with Ukko av Vargevass (may '07) and she got 4 nice puppies which we all keept.

In 2009 we breeded her with Enok "Ewok"

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Vargevass

foto: Dogs, december 2007: Seppe, Vacke, Tanna. Bree, Vince, Isa, Grynna, Juno, Kebne og Kaise, Nørlund.

Den kennel der her i Skandinavien (Europa) har gjort det bedst gennem tiden (first litter 1969 - PEIK, and still going STRONG) er efter min bedste overbevisning
Kennel Vargevass, ved Karsten Grønås, Sweden.

Han er ivrig udstiller af sine hunde til udstillinger, og vægter Siberian Husky standarden højt i kennelens avl.

Derudover har han altid deltaget i konkurrence for at prøve hundene og oftest lagt helt fremme på resultatlisterne.

Vargvind

foto, september 2006: lead; A'Tebs Lingo, Vindsnabbe's Coyote, point; Bree, Juno, team; Seppe, Bosse (Vargfot's Bosse Bandit), wheel; Vince og Vacke.

We are living with 14 Working Siberian Huskies in the kennel now, but we started with 5 dogs and one of the dogs came from the seppala-anadyr line (Lingo), we liked his temper very much, so I dicided to read about the history of the Siberian Husky...

Our dogs now:
males
Seppe, Awangas C. Weber, ’05, retired leader ('08-'13)
Kebne, ’07, a Ukko av Vargevass, main leader('12-?)
Barak, '10, a Vacke o Wilma, can lead

females

Juno, Vindsnabbe’s Juno, ’06, team, retired
Tanna, ’07, a Ukko av Vargevass, can lead
Kaise, ’07, a Ukko av Vargevass, leader
Isa, ’07, a Ukko av Vargevass, team

Dolly, '09, a Ewok (av Vargevass), team

Wilma, '09, a Ewok (av Vargevass), leader

Debbie, '10, a Vacke o Wilma, team

Fanny, '10, a Vacke o Wilma, team

Bitten, '10, a Vacke o Wilma, team

Thats Why

foto by Elna: ("De Fem") from left, Lingo, X-ray ('93- september '06), Ilona ('97- december '06) og Kozak ('97-june '10) i Silkeborg, januar 2001 (Nikki in velo-klass).

We live in the middle of Jylland in Denmark, near Silkeborg. In 1998 when we got Lingo (most Seppala and Anadyr), we were moved to a wonderful place on 3 ha and with 4 woods around us to train in.

We was so lucky to have Lingo (*1998- december '06+) at our place, he had a lovely temper and it's in his spirit we decided to continue with Siberian Husky...

Therefor Siberian Husky

About us

foto: Vivi med Vargfot's Kvicke "Vacke" og Bosse ('00-'08), efter "Jetson", juni 2000.

Vargvind Working Siberian Husky; siden 1995: Vores store fritidsinteresse er Siberian Husky - slædehunde, en interesse der er blevet til en livsstil og som omfatter slædehundesport og opdræt (se websiberian).

kontakt: Vivi og Mads Peder Vilhelmsen, nordulf@os.dk.