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 [...]
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Dogs In Space & Other Fun Facts
Posted by brucegs13 on June 28th, 2010
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 [...]
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