The dogs were lined out in the dark at five-thirty, and I was checking tuglines by headlamp when the radio…
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I read the number a second time before I accepted it: 185 dogs pulled from the 2026 Iditarod trail due…
The kennel smelled the way it always does at minus eighteen: straw, dogs, and cold air that belongs to no…
The call came through on a Wednesday, second week of February, and the temperature out here had been sitting at minus eighteen for three days straight. I w
The tug line went slack mid-run and I knew before I looked that Fenwick had pulled up lame. Dropped out of his harness rhythm so quietly that the other dog
The piece I read about this Montana town ran four paragraphs before it mentioned the dogs were working. Not performing. Not posing for a video someone woul
What Good Looks Like Sable came to me from a kennel in Minnesota that had just shut down. Eighteen months old, never raced, never worked a real run. The wo
What Alaska Doesn’t Own The harness had been outside since Tuesday. When I picked it up Thursday morning the frozen nylon smell hit me before I’d even gott
The letter arrived in February, on the kind of day where the cold had settled in for good and even the dogs were running quieter than usual, that flat prai
Birch quit on me seventeen miles out, just sat down in the traces like she’d made up her mind, because she had. Not injured. Not tangled. Done. I unclipped
