I had been anticipating this part of the trip with great excitement. I love dogs and I will never forget my previous experience with sled dogs in Alaska. We were supposed to go on a sled dog ride but how do you do that when there's no snow? Never fear. Where there's a will there's a way and instead of a sled we had a chariot. Who cares! I just love dogs.
And so we went to Wapusk Adventures to be greeted by Big Dog (Dave) and his kennel of puppies and sled dogs. Dave is a local and larger than life with endless interesting and amusing stories about his life growing up in an Inuit community and his passion for dog sledding. My trusty roomie, Gerry, and I had opted to ride together and we were first cab off the rank. The whole kennel of dogs went biserk when the sleds/chariots appeared and the handlers were stretched to the limit trying to prepare the dogs and keep the teams stationary.
Restrained from the front.
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| And from the back. |
Time to go and we were off so fast. Our charioteer advised us that if we wanted to change places half way through, we had better be quick because he wasn't sure if he could stop the dogs. We managed it but those dogs can really move and we had to hang on for grim death all the way. All too soon it was over and we had completed our IDIDAMILE.
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| Fellow charioteers |
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| Ever present polar bear protection.
Just love sled dogs.
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