The Dogs of Sawtooth Racing
How do you tell them all apart? It’s the first question asked when someone new meets the team. I’m sure their jumping barking faces do...
Erin Altemus
Teamwork
At our previous homestead off Pine Mountain Road, our kennel was conveniently situated between two main snowmobile trails and several unplowed forest roads. Sometimes with...
Storms of November
About the time we were supposed to be getting our first good snow, a month or more of rain came all at once on November...
The Times are a Changin…
In April, we moved from our off-grid cabin on Mush Lake to a home in the County Road 14 area east of Grand Marais. The...
Beargrease 2021
With 1400 training miles on the team, no training injuries and healthy leaders, I felt confident going into the race. The trail was short of...
Beargrease Race Strategy
As I write this, the big race is three weeks away. The team has trained 1,100+ miles to date. I’ve spent almost every free day...
The Coldest Miles
I have maintained a log of our training miles since the fall of 2014. It’s an excel spreadsheet, with a tab for each month of...
Hindsight is Always 2020
I ended my last blog on a rather upbeat note in a year when I should have known better. At the end of our first...