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Dog-sledding is an ideal way to get away from the routine of regular life and explore the wilds of Alaska. Details of a number of Alaska's dog-sledding tours are provided.

Dogsledding is one of the most interesting tours to take in Jackson Wyoming, where a team of huskies can pull you through the wilderness for half a day, to three days running. It may be cold outside, but the speed and excitement of the dogs is infectious.

A writer describes his first skiing, snowshoeing, dogsledding and snowmobiling experiences at Lutsen Resort in Minnesota. He loved skiing and snowshoeing, but was too scared to snowboard.

A personal narrative of a visit to the White Mountains National Recreation Area, north of Fairbanks, Alaska is presented. The area has two hundred miles of winter trails open to skiers dog mushers and snowmobiles.

When five adventures and 22 huskies take up a challenge to cross the icy interior of Greenland using only traditional dog sledges, it has all the makings of an epic [...]

An international team of explorers journeyed from Russia to Canada by dogsledding. The success of the expedition, intended to raise awareness of the destruction of the Arctic environment, was due in part to the strength and enthusiasm of their huskies.

Dog teams had to be used to fetch and transport diphtheria serum from Nulato to Nome in Alaska in 1925. As a result of the efforts of the dogs, a likely epidemic in the town of Nome, which previously suffered from an influenza epidemic, was prevented.

Joe Redington Sr, who is the father of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, gave six tourists the opportunity to experience travel by dog mushing. These novices discovered how difficult and dangerous dog sledding can be.

A sled team consisting of three dogs and one leader took 19 days to reach the Magnetic North Pole from 325 miles away. The story of the journey and the courage of the dogs is related.

The Winterlake Lodge is near Finger Lake in Alaska and serves as a checkpoint during the annual Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. The lodge serves excellent food and offers customers the opportunity to learn how to run a dog sled.

Dog sledding is described with emphasis on its attractions and problems. The experiences of one family are described with reference to the challenges it presented.

Byline: Molinary, Rosie Dogsledding Dog days Rosie Molinary and 12 yipping hounds take on the Grand Tetons It's a gum-tingling 4 degrees on a Sunday morning, and the only sound [...]

In January 2005, ignoring the tropical migratory patterns of most winter travelers, I boarded a Finnair plane ('Santa's official airline') bound for Helsinki. Final destination? The tiny town of Kittila, [...]

A personal account of a trip to the Godwin Glacier in the Chugach National Forest in Alaska to enjoy the summer dogsledding services offered by Godwin Glacier Dogsled Tours. The service was started by Lorraine Temple, a one-time professional musher and trainer of dog teams for the Iditarod, and operates under a special use permit, which means that every summer it transports all of its supplies in and at the end of the summer it transports everything back out again leaving nothing behind.

There was no need, Nicolle Smith assured me, to command Aries, Gaiter, Loathing, and the rest of my sled dogs to "mush" to get them moving. After I double-checked my […]

The All Alaska Sweepstakes was a 408-mile dog race through bleak terrain and often bad weather from Nome to Candle and back, running each year from 1908 to 1916. Details of some of the races are presented.

The annual John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon is one of the most demanding sled dog races in the US. The race, which takes place each January, is 500 miles from Duluth to Grand Portage, MN, and back again. A spectator at the event describes the race.

A woman describes an eight day dogsled trip inside the Arctic circle that she made with two friends. An airplane trip brings them 200 miles from Fairbanks, AK. Each person has a dog team. There are 36 dogs, a dog handler and an outfitter. The woman's lead dog is called April.

MY TEETH CHATTER, MY hipbones shake, and I shriek at the top of my voice as we whip through the lush Jamaican landscape at up to 20 miles per hour [...]

When the editor was looking for a volunteer to shoot a feature story in Alaska, my hand shot up quicker than an ejection seat busting an F-16 canopy, For one, [...]