Howard and Zombie are two young dogs who are spending their fall learning to lead. To be more exact, their focus is on learning their commands, since they both ran lead a little last winter. Both of them are very willing students, and so far, they work very well together. To be honest, they are

Yesterday Peter and I did a little work on the dirt road that leads to the kennel. There are a few strategically placed rocks on the road that shorter cars, like mine, tend to do battle with them from time to time. We decided that these needed to go. Pry bars in hand, we tackled

Its funny which dogs become your favorites; you’d think it would be the best dogs you run, the best leaders, the fastest, the most energetic. But sometimes you can’t figure out why a dog is at the top of your list. Joe Joe is a dog like that, he’s retired now, but when he ran

Button Box We just got back from our annual training event we attend at Button Box campground. This event is fantastic. The unique feature is that there is great diversity in mushers. This year we had a total of 440 dogs and about 45 people. There were racers with large teams and recreational mushers with

This year has been a wonderful collection of experiences involving snowmobiles to reinforce our conviction to run sled dogs. The first snowmobile adventure was way back in early January when we needed to break trail for a busy week. Until recently we had always broken trail with big teams of dogs, then a few years

The dogs are done with this years dogsledding trips and now it is spring in the dog yard

Minnesota is a large and ecologically diverse state. Where we are located it is the smallest of all the sub ecosystems, the Boreal Forest. This area of big pines is located on the Canadian Shield, the bedrock that comes jutting up to provide our rocky outcrops. We are well known for our lakes and they

“Boy are you out there”, is how I am greeted many times when people arrive. And we are out there but not in the middle of nowhere. We are in the center of the Superior National Forest and on the edge of the Boundary Waters Wilderness Area (BWCA). Our kennel directly connects to the official

We have several wonderful sled dogs for adoption. Click on this link to see the list. adoption dogs If you are looking for a companion this is a great chance to find one.