dog mushing
Canine sled sport
Dog mushing is the sport or practice of traveling over snow by sled pulled by a team of dogs, typically huskies or malamutes.
The driver, called a musher, stands on the sled runners and commands the dogs.
Mushing ranges from recreational outings to competitive racing, most famously the Iditarod across Alaska: She's been mushing for twenty years.
- IditarodAlaskan sled dog race
- bootiesSmall knitted footwear
- skijoringTowed skiing behind animals
- harnessStraps controlling an animal
- Arctic explorationInvestigating the frozen north
Alaskan tundra · team · mush · lead · sprint racing · veterinary care · survival skills · sled · subsistence hunting · gold rush · sled dogs · mail delivery · trail markers · tundra · trail · snow · team dynamics · howling
- Alaska Bushbush pilots, bush planes, remote villages, native villages, off-grid living
- Alaska WildernessDenali, Alaska Range, caribou, brown bears, grizzly bear
- sled dogshusky, sled team, dogsled, Iditarod, sled racing
- Western AlaskaNome, Bering Sea, Bering Strait, Iditarod, bush planes
- FairbanksFairbanks, North Pole, aurora borealis, northern lights, ice fog
- Subarctictaiga, boreal forest, subarctic, Arctic Circle, permafrost
mode of snow/arctic transportation
dog mushingsnowmobiling
Operating motorized winter sleds
helicopter transport · helicopter skiing · walking · cross-country skiing · snowshoeing