Dog Blog

Last year’s racing season ended with the crushing disappointment of a scratch from my big race, the Can-Am 250. For two weeks in early March,...

In mid-February, we packed up 14 dogs, two mushers, one handler and a toddler and headed to the UP200, a 230-mile race starting and ending...

We are a week away from running the UP 200, a 250-mile race in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan that runs from downtown Marquette through...

In 2003, I signed on with my friend Elissa to be one of the YMCA Camp Menogyn mushers for the winter. Menogyn leases dogs for...

As the parent of one child who has little experience with other small children, I often find myself surprised by the many facets of watching...

Mushers pay a lot of attention to their dogs’ feet. When buying or breeding a sled dog, we often ask, “Do they have good feet?”...

Matt and I are going into our 10th year of mushing. During this time, I have become keenly aware that my identity as “musher” sets...

As the Beargrease Sled Dog Race approached, the forecast became foreboding. “Won’t mushers drop out?” Someone asked me before the race. I thought about this...