Mushing Capital of the World Trip on Gowalla
On the location service application for iPhone (and other smart-phones), Gowalla, you can create unique trips to share with your friends. Since I am living and training in the Mushing Capital of the World: Willow, Alaska I thought it would be cool to make a trip on Gowalla to share. In Willow, we have more […]
Fortos Fort: A year in the life
Forto’s Fort July 3, 2010 It was July 3, 2010 at about 3 pm when my daughter, Nicole and I landed in Alaska on a cool and very rainy Saturday afternoon and we pulled into the driveway to meet realtor and friend, Dave. We had pretty much bought the cabin sight unseen in mid-June on […]
Training run on the Solstice
On the summer solstice, the longest day of the year, some people dance around a bonfire with bones in their hair. Some jump into a frozen ocean at the top the world. Others worship the Sun God. I took the sled dog team out for a quick summer training run. It was a great run […]
Freshly pressed, hopes and dreams…
I can’t say how grateful I am for the opportunity to be Freshly Pressed on WordPress.com yesterday. The post was just a short piece about my first training run of the summer with my sled dog team up in Alaska. I didn’t think much of it when I wrote it. I just wanted to share […]
Mushing–Alaska Style: First Training Run of Summer
After a quick two month break we are back on the trails again. In these short 2 or 3 mile runs on the dirt roads we will be training the Deadwood pups (a whole litter named after the HBO series: Alma, Jewel, Ellsworth, Wu, Swidgeon, Joanie and Sophia) to run in lead. It was the […]