25 June 2017 3.30 PM 75F Sunny It’s summer in Alaska. Right now, we’re in the middle of spell lasting several weeks where it doesn’t get dark. At all. It might be slightly murky for an hour or so, but it can be hard to tell … More Go Out and Play
4 June 2017 3.00 PM 68 F Blue skies and sunny It’s been pretty damp and cool for the last couple of weeks here. Early Spring had been lovely, warm and sunny but that dryness had already resulted in several small wildfires, 2 of which were closer to us than we … More Hello. My Name Is
28 May 2017 1.00PM. 53 F. Overcast Each Spring, we draw up a “hit list” of dogs. If you’re on the list, then you’re headed to the vets to have your reproductive bits removed ! With as many dogs as we have, it is imperative that we can control our numbers and having … More Routine and Not So Routine
4 May 2017 3.00PM 59 F Cloudy As slowly as it arrived, our sledding season was also slow to depart. We could still run on sleds out of here until early April – without it being truly horrendous as it has been at the tail end of some … More Looking Back
19 April 2017 6.00 PM 51 F Sunny Alaska is a great place to live. There are no snakes, no biting creepy crawlies – well excluding the one wee spider that isn’t even supposed to be that bad, no need to check your boots before you put them on in … More Big Furry Rodents
12 Feb 2017 10.00 AM -17F Clear and sunny In May 2014, I made what I thought would be my last long run to collect dogs from JJ and Susan Bragg at Seppala Kennels in Manitoba. I’d made several trips over the preceding years, and was sure that I wouldn’t be … More 6, 745 Miles
11 Feb 2017 6.00 PM 3 F Clear and sunny Tradition has it that I post a photograph of our Happy Crew at their gate, taken on New Year’s Day. I can’t quite recall how this particular “tradition” started, and unfortunately, I forgot to take one this year. … More Happy New Year
