Hi everyone I went missing for awhile I had to put my trailer in the bush for the summer and get it all set up. Anyways my posting is to find out if anyone has an interest dog sledding or past experience? I hope to have enough Huskies or Malamutes and sledding equipment by the end of the fall to start dog sledding this winter. I will not have a huge team but enough to get started and progress from there. I know it the beginning of summer but I'm thinking ahead as this summer I'm building a cabin in the woods from where I'll be able to begin my dream of living off the land and from there I intend to dog sled, hunt and live a subsistence lifestyle. Please respond with any interest, comments and definetly any helpfull hints or info. Thank You in advance KDB P.S. If any one else is interested in this lifestyle please respond to.
I have an eight dog team of Alaskan Husky/hounds, all pretty young. I borrowed an older lead dog to help train with. If you can find a seasoned leader it makes it so much easier to get a group of youngsters focused. It's not a cheap undertaking.
Thanks for the post freeinalsaka I have been looking dogs for a while now and I'm not looking for speed I'm looking for endurance and the ability to pull a fair amount of weight. The reason for this is that in the future I intend the dod sled to be my winter transportation on a full time bases as I intend to live in the bush year round. I have atvs, snowmobiles, boat, canoes and vehicles but I prefer to slow my life style down and this should be a step in the right direction. Any other tips or comments from anybody is much welcomed; as is anyone just dropping a line to talk or show interest. Thanks KDB
You seem to know quite a bit about dog sledding freeinalaska. Are there any sites you could point me to so i could learn a little more about it please. Thanks! eace:
I have run dog teams quite a bit here in Alaska. We used them out at the homestead for hauling freight, and I worked as a guide. Godwin Glacier is near Seward, Alaska, and I used to work as a guide taking tourist around on the glacier by dog team. It's really fun to run to take people around by dog team during summer. We used what is called double sledding to take three people at a time on the sled -two sleds tied together pulled by a 12 dogs. The guide stands on the front sled with 1 guest in the sled basket, and the other two guests ride on the back sled. We have the guests switch places so everyone gets a chance to stand on the sled runners. The trail is only about a mile, and we stop a lot to allow the guests to look around and to give the dogs time to rest. The ice of the glacier is covered with about 100 feet of snow at the beginning of summer, and by late August patches of ice are showing though. We run on the upper part of Godwin Glacier. The toe (bottom end) has ice showing most of the time. Everything on the glacier is taken on and off by helicopter. Here the floor frame to the galley tent is being air-lifted. See more photos in my photos under, "Life in Alaska."
