Sentences with phrase «with mushers»

With mushers as your guide you will get a chance to witness true working sled dogs in action!

Get free lesson plans, connect with a musher and get your kids excited.

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On March 5 he will again start the trek across the width of Alaska, attempting to become the second musher, along with Rick Swenson, to win a fifth Iditarod — and the only one to win five consecutively.

«The bloodlines of my dogs date back 100 years,» says Lance Mackey, Larry's owner and legendary racing musher, the only person to win the long - distance Iditarod and the Yukon Quest in the same year with the same dog team.

Students see first hand the pride and dignity that comes with seeing a job through to its completion, every musher on their own terms with the frozen trail.

With your wall map and miniature dog teams in place, your students committed to following individual mushers, and a well developed background on the dogs, you're ready to receive updates at least twice a day (and more often if you are interested) online.

With every update you post next to the wall map, students can indicate the progress of their mushers by moving their teams along the map.

A nice extension of this activity is to make a template of a musher's team (usually no bigger than an inch by 2 inches in size), or have students create their own small facsimiles of a dog team out of tagboard and label them with their names.

Joe, along with many other past mushers, have bravely served our country.

In order to move from checkpoint to checkpoint the math mushers must complete math problems, along with a given task that is supposed to warm them up as they travel along the chilly trail.

She wondered if she could buy Juno from the musher with some of the money left over in the stolen wallet.

The initial work has also been done for a weaver who runs a small flock of colored sheep, a farmer storing feed grain in his barn, a flock - owner in wolf territory, a recreational musher, a rabbit hunter, and a pet owner with an interest in any of the characteristics of the herding, guarding, terrier, working, or hound dogs; what remains is to find just the right breed to match the lifestyle and personality of the owner.

Prior to the sled dog race season, the kennels are open for tours, various events, and the mushers and their dogs often make public appearances to share their experiences with others.

When I got my second dog Ice (Alaskan Husky) I sought professional advice and found amazing people (dog trainers, groomers and dog mushers in Alaska and Colorado) and with their guidance I studied to become a professional dog trainer, behaviour consultant and dog groomer.

This is why mushers cover their bellies with special dog coats and cover their paws with booties that protect their feet from cracking.

Inside the heated Monee Reservoir Visitor Center, the «Great Race to Nome» will be illustrated with activities and an exhibit about great mushers throughout history.

It is Alaska's most famous sporting event with around 50 mushers and up to a 1000 dogs taking part.

At this point, the first plan of action in building her business is for Courtney to do some volunteer work with a dog sled musher in Alaska and gain some experience working with that population.

Another option is to cover your dog's paw pads with a pet - safe gel such as Mushers Secret or regular old petroleum jelly.

We have since revisited Alaska in winter of 2011 and met with Iditarod musher Jeff King and World renown sprint musher Egil Ellis.

A good owner provides a house with fresh hay but often you see the dogs preferring to sit outside at minus zero degrees happily prancing and excitedly watching for the musher to get the harnesses out.

Back at the cabin I wash up with a lotion tissue and brush my teeth with a cup of water from the jerrycan the musher fills with water from an ice - hole in the lake.

Living on a rural homestead outside of Homer, Alaska with her husband and dog team, she has created an innovative lecture series on leadership and teamwork that incorporates lessons from the trail based on her experiences as a dog musher.