Winterpaws - Home to the Siberian and Alaskan Husky

	Monday, January 07, 2008

Tomorrow we leave for Switzerland

Around mid day tomorrow, we leave Sweden for Switzerland… home to the first two stages of AT.

We will be sorry to say good bye to Axhandle Mountain here in Sweden… Graham, Betan and staff have been such superb hosts… like home to home, and we had trail conditions from icy, freshly groomed snow to breaking trail. Great experience for me and the dogs.

Our time here has been fantastic… and very memorable… will be back next year.

And for those that want to experience the sled dog world… as it should be experienced, give Axhandle Mountain a call to make those dreams come true. Graham has a good number of dogs and great facilities. You will not be disappointed!

For us, we now have 800 miles on the dogs, of which 400 was on snow…

I probably will not be able to do anymore updating to this until we return home… but the race can be followed online at alpentrail.com

And dogs selected for race, view us here.

Happy trails...

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Monday, January 07, 2008 8:48:14 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

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	Saturday, January 05, 2008

Puppies at Axhandle Mountain

Arrr... so so cute.

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Saturday, January 05, 2008 3:00:32 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

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	Friday, January 04, 2008

On the frozen river

Yesterday Graham and James went out on skidoos (snow machines) to check if the river had frozen enough to run dogs on… all was good!

Running dogs up a frozen river is superb :o) and gives you a great opportunity to take in the wilderness that surrounds you... double bonus.

ooh... not totally frozen... but good as dam it!!!

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Friday, January 04, 2008 9:41:37 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

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	Wednesday, January 02, 2008

To the Lake and back, plus 27km loop

Today; Musher’s Malc, Graham, Betan, Tim, James, Jenny and I all ventured to the local lake with six to eight dog teams, a 30km round trip from the Axhandle Mountain dog yard.
Besides the breathtaking scenery and venturing onto the lake with your dogs, the trail back gave me a great opportunity to practice passing (overtaking). First I had my team pass Betan & Tim, then Graham and I played cat and Mouse… all went very well. Once back near the dog yard, I continued on with the 27km trail to get some miles on the dogs. We did 57km in all, which a good 15km of that involved breaking trail. All good experience for me and the dogs.

Picture by Graham Kent

Graham’s team and mine practicing overtaking and running together for photo shoot :o)

Many thanks to all the Mushers mentioned above for great and successful day...

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Wednesday, January 02, 2008 7:45:59 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

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	Tuesday, January 01, 2008

Happy New Year

Happy new year from us and all the team at Axhandle Mountain.

Have a great year and season... happy trails :o)

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Tuesday, January 01, 2008 4:47:09 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

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	Sunday, December 30, 2007

Breaking Trail

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Sunday, December 30, 2007 7:40:08 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

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	Saturday, December 29, 2007

More Training Pics

Team 'A' 54km in total today... 6c below and calm...

String working too hard as usual (wheel right)

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Saturday, December 29, 2007 5:27:22 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

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	Friday, December 28, 2007

Resting

Chrome

Tasha

Ripley & Risk

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Friday, December 28, 2007 5:31:56 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

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	Thursday, December 27, 2007

Dogs running free

Axhandle Mountain kennel

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Thursday, December 27, 2007 7:09:01 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

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	Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Training update from Sweden

Malc setting off with team 'B' on one of his two 12km training runs...

I set off laters with team ‘A’ on two-27km runs… which included one night run… and what a fantastic feeling it is, to run your dogs on snow under the rising of a full moon under calm weather conditions. Just you, your dogs and the great vast snowed covered wilderness... a feeling that I can only describe as amazing while fearful and awe-inspiring... many thanks Graham.

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Wednesday, December 26, 2007 6:28:44 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

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