And speaking of “It’s Raining (on) Cats & Sled Dogs,” we’re pleased to announce that our summer sled dog kennel can now be turned into an instant typhoon on hot days. With the flip of a switch, our Arctic dogs get a cross-cultural Southeast Asian monsoon experience. The sprinklers are part of a wildfire deterrence [...]
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Wintergreen Sled Dogs Get a Taste of the Tropics
Posted by brucegs13 on July 7th, 2010
Posted in The Dogs, The Lodge 
Tags: Arctic Dogs, balsam trees, Firewise, Gunflint Trail, Minnesota, Sled Dog, sprinkler systems, wildfire, wildfire deterrence system 
No Comments »It’s Raining Cats & Sled Dogs!
Posted by brucegs13 on July 7th, 2010
Hundreds of sled dogs were pressed into duty during WWII for search and rescue missions throughout Greenland, Canada and Alaska. But they also saw duty on the Western Front in one of the least-known stories of sled dog heroics that involved one of the most amazing adventurers Wintergreen has ever had the honor of being [...]
Posted in The Arctic, The Dogs, The Tales Tags: Alaska, Arctic, Battle of the Bulge, Canada, France, German Army, Greenland, musher, Newfoundland, Norman Vaughan, parachutes, Section Eight, Sled Dogs, Toul, US Army, War Dogs, World War II, WWII 2 Comments »Why Do Dogs Eat Their Poop?
Posted by brucegs13 on July 6th, 2010
Ah yes, “coprophagy” Although that’s not a big problem with Wintergreen’s sled dogs, it is perhaps the 2nd most common “quirky dog behavior” question that we get asked (stay tuned for the 1st in an upcoming blog). Here’s the evolutionary explanation: Back when dogs were wild and roaming the woods instead of pulling sleds or [...]
Dogs In Space & Other Fun Facts
Posted by brucegs13 on June 28th, 2010
Wow! Do people ever love dogs! Over 40 million US households have them — and of course we skew those statistics here at Wintergreen Dogsled Lodge with our 75 dogs. Dogs are the first animals humans domesticated (12,000 years ago). We were in love with dogs before we had farms or villages or the written [...]
Posted in The Dogs Tags: Adolf Hitler, Blondi, canis lupus, Celebrity Dogs, Cold War, Dog Facts, Dog Training, dogs, Dogs In Space, Heaviest Dog, JFK, Laika, Pushinka, Sputnik, Suicide Pills, Tiniest Dog 1 Comment »The Most Amazing Sled Dog in Polar History
Posted by paulschurke on June 25th, 2010
Meet the world’s most accomplished sled dog! We first met him in spring 1985. We called him Sam. He went on to make canine history in a big way. We were on a 5-month, 5,000-mile dogsled trek across North America — from Duluth, MN, to Barrow, AK, the northernmost village in the USA. Our team, [...]
Posted in The Adventures, The Arctic, The Dogs Tags: Beaufort Sea, Cold War, Dew Line, Ely, Lead Dog, Minnesota, North Pole, South Pole, Will Steger 4 Comments »Wintergreen’s Adventure Diplomacy Expedition Commemorated in Anchorage
Posted by brucegs13 on June 1st, 2010
When we dogsledded and skied from Siberia to Alaska 20 years ago in our effort to help re-open the U.S.-Soviet border in the Bering Strait, little did we know that the project would someday be memorialized in a very unusual way. But this week we got a call from Alaska Airlines to tell us that [...]
Animal Encounters of the Third Kind
Posted by brucegs13 on June 1st, 2010
Sled dogs have plenty of encounters with each other and their human companions but they’ve also have occasional encounters with wild animals. Wintergreen mushers were stopped by a moose on the trail several years back. He hoofed the snow and cast a few threatening glances but eventually sauntered off without incident. Other mushers have not [...]
Adventure Story – Pyta Boy’s Long Walk Home
Posted by brucegs13 on June 1st, 2010
Can dogs really find their way home over long distances a la “The Incredible Journey” and “Old Yeller”? Migrating birds & butterflies certainly can — over thousands of miles. But according to the database in the book “Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home, and Other Unexplained Powers of Animals” (1999), most accounts [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, The Adventures, The Dogs, The Tales Tags: Eskimo Dog, Incredible Journey, Old Dogs No Comments »Adventure Travel Tour/Dogsledding – 2010 Guest Testimonials
Posted by brucegs13 on May 31st, 2010
The following , which is a shameless plug for Wintergreen Dogsled Lodge, are slected quotes from 2010 season guest letters and evalutations. GREAT PEOPLE, GREAT FOOD, BEAUTIFUL SURROUNDINGS, AND THE SINGING OF THE DOGS . . . IT DOESN’T GET MUCH BETTER!!! Great people, great food, beautiful surroundings, and the singing of the dogs…it doesn’t [...]
Top Adventure Tour Nets Wintergreen a Top Sled Dog
Posted by brucegs13 on May 30th, 2010
When Outside Magazine ranked our “Dogsled Trip with Polar Inuits in Northwestern Greenland” among it “Top 25 Adventues of a Lifetime,” we were honored. But an even greater gift from Greenland were the litter of sled dogs pups given to us in the northernmost village in the world. They’ve proven to be a wonderful addition [...]
Posted in The Dogs, The Lodge Tags: Canadian Inuit Dogs, dogsledding, pups, training pups No Comments »
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