From St. Cloud to the WolfTrack Classic: Mike Bestgen’s epic sled dog racing journey
Mike Bestgen, a 66-year-old resident of St. Cloud, Minnesota, has been a competitive sled dog racer for over 25 years.
MLive10d
Snow outlook good for U.P.’s CopperDog 150 sled races
Festivities begin with the CopperDog Street Party, including fireworks, on Friday evening in Calumet. The CopperDog150, ...
St. Cloud Times7d
From St. Cloud to the WolfTrack Classic: Mike Bestgen’s epic sled dog racing journey
The dogs are much the same way. “They live for this. You hook up a sled dog, they want to run and pull; that’s what they’re bred for,” he said. “We would never make a dog run.
KYUK4d
Subsistence-style dog mushing is fading. How Alaska's salmon crisis is changing the sport
Throughout its rich history in Alaska, the tradition of mushing has changed with the times and shifted to adapt to a changing ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN10d
This Heroic Dog Raced Across the Frozen Alaskan Wilderness to Deliver Life-Saving Medicine—but His Contributions Were Long Overlooked
Togo, not Balto, was the driving force behind the 1925 Serum Run to Nome, which found teams of mushers and sled dogs delivering antitoxin to children suffering from diphtheria ...
Orange County Register6d
Malamute Timber loves making friends
For a dog built to pull sleds, Timber is pretty mellow. He does require a good deal of exercise and entertainment, being he’s just a pup. He’s house-trained, loves to go on walks, and knows ...
KTVZ3d
New at the job, Bend ‘sled dog’ Roxy has a blast pulling the sledding kids down the snowy street
Kevin Desrosiers tells us his new 2 1/2-year-old Aussie, Roxy, has taken to all the fun of pulling the kids down snowy Mount Hope Lane in SW Bend. "A little after-school fun!" ...