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By Dan Carlson, on March 13th, 2008
This morning I was up before dawn (which isn’t so early these days) driving up to Big Lake to make a dog food pick up. People always ask about feeding the dogs, how much you buy, how much does it cost…… I quit keeping track of how much my sled dog activities cost [...]
By Dan Carlson, on February 10th, 2008
For those of you who have interest in my mushing (sled dog racing) career, I raced in the Ham Lake Snow Bowl on Saturday. Here is a shot (click here) of me coming out of the starting chute. Here is another shot (click here) on the course. I can’t post the pictures [...]
By Dan Carlson, on February 5th, 2008
Sometimes people get so busy they can’t keep up with themselves. Kind of like the time my brother was playing softball, rounding third , when his feet didn’t keep up with his body……..and well……you know……crash!
Well I haven’t crashed but my postings kind of did for the past couple of weeks. There has been [...]
By Dan Carlson, on March 14th, 2007
Some of you may have noticed that I haven’t posted any photos (other than links off the net) lately. Well that was the result of user issues, aka I reverted to old software and forgot how to use it. Well I refreshed my brain and figured it out. Below are some photos [...]
By Dan Carlson, on March 13th, 2007
With the recent weather it is clear that Minnesota mushing is over for the season. That is always a nice transition because when the weather deteriorates for the sled dogs, it is replaced with the blessing of the coming spring. The coming of spring is a signal for the Carlson family to start [...]
By Dan Carlson, on March 5th, 2007
Some of you may wonder what sleddog racing has to do with spiritual fitness. For me it has a lot to do with rest. It is important to a person’s health to get enough rest. Often we rest our bodies and even our souls, but I find sleddog activities a time when [...]
By Dan Carlson, on March 3rd, 2007
If you had by chance followed my blogging career when I was working for EPPD, you know that I often wrote and shared stories about mushing, aka sled dog raceing. This year has been horrible regarding snow conditions and th result has been the cancelation of most races. However, as you read this [...]
By Dan Carlson, on February 3rd, 2007
Yes, the results are in and…………
We’re Number Five! But Cobi and Orion did most of the work. I did contribute by getting into a tuck every once in awhile to cut down the wind resistance.
There were 10 skijorers in the the first wave of the advanced class. That’s me in the yellow and [...]
By Dan Carlson, on February 3rd, 2007
Well I’m off to the Skijor Loppet in Minneapolis. It’s my first race in several years since I’ve been dog handler for the kids and their racing. Tomorrow is the St. Paul Winter Carnival Race and provided I survive today I’ll be there also. I’ve done a little training as the pictures below show. I’ve [...]
By Dan Carlson, on January 17th, 2007
Well, after months of waiting for a decent snowfall to get out on the sleds, we finally got the white stuff we needed. No longer do the dogs have to spend time dragging a noisy four-wheeler through the dirt. A nice quiet glide over the snow. Here’s a few shots of my daughter Amy living [...]
By Dan Carlson, on November 30th, 2006
As I build this site, my focus is primarily on content rather than style or aesthetics (much like my life if you’ve ever seen my wardrobe). However, I am trying to give this page a nice look and I have some control over “decorating” the site. So I thought I’d dress up the site with [...]
By Dan Carlson, on October 12th, 2006
I knew we were having flurries last night when I went to bed but didn’t realize until this morning that we actually had some snow cover.
This may not mean a lot to some of you, but to those of us that spend a majority of our winters participating in sled dog sports, aka “mushing”, snow [...]
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