When you are dipping your feet in the sport of mushing, you will save years of hard work by working with a mentor. I learned more in two years with my mentors at Windigo than most people will learn in ten years of doing this yourself.
Here is a video I made for some basics while training last fall. It’s not gospel so take the information provided and apply it to your own training program!
MUSHING QUOTES
Here are some great quotes from mushers recently posted in a social media group. Not all the quotes posted gave credit so they are listed as unknown.
- The fastest team always wins. – Tone Coughlin
- Lead, follow, or get out of the way. – unknown
- The dog never makes a mistake. He is just a dog and he does what he does because he is a dog and he thinks like a dog. It is you that makes the mistake because you haven’t trained him to do what you want him to do when you want him to do it. – George Attla
- Anything can walk to Nome. – unknown
- You have to be smarter than the dog to be able to train it. – unknown
- Never under any circumstances ask more of a dog than he can give. – Dr. Charles Belford
- You need a partner and a truck and both have to work. – Rick Swenson
- You can’t push a rope. – unknown
- It costs as much to feed a dog as it does a good one. – unknown
- You’re only as fast as your slowest dog. – unknown
- Never let go. – unknown
- First you have to have the right dogs. Then you have to feed them right and train them right. – Gareth Wright.
- Just remember when everything goes wrong, you’ve still got a responsibility to get you and your dog home. – unknown
- Dog sledding lives at the intersection of skill and chaos. – Burton Penner
- All lead dogs eventually have the same name. – unknown
- Trust the dogs. Trust yourself. – unknown
- You can’t make a dog run. You have to let him. – unknown
- The more you talk the less they listen. – unknown
