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Entries in dog sledding (2)

Saturday
Sep192009

Lance Mackey Fall Meet And Greet/Training Day

September 19-20 Bonfield, ON Fall Meet and Greet/Training day Information: After last years Ontario Federation of Sleddog Sports Symposium held in North Bay Ontario, which turned out to be a huge success we decided to bring Lance back so that everyone else could have the same opportunity as we did to get to know the man himself better. That is why this year he will be coming back to Bonfield, Ontario.

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Saturday
Sep122009

How Sled Dogs Work

They're physical marvels -- able to endure extreme conditions for extensive periods of time while running fast and pulling more than their own weight. Sled dogs have been around for generations, and today they remain a large part of a musher's, or dog driver's, life.In arctic regions, some 35,000 years ago, Eskimos' dogs bred with wolves and other dogs. Their offspring were well-adapted to the cold and snow. There's no saying exactly when someone thought to have dogs pull sleds, but it was well before 1000 B.C. [source: Casey]. Dogsleds provided a means of transportation and a way to haul goods.

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