Dog Driver: A Guide for the Serious Musher - Softcover

Julie Collins; Miki Collins

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1577791614 ISBN 13: 9781577791614

Publisher: Alpine Publications, Inc., 2013

Synopsis

Dog Driver is for anyone interested in sled dog training for recreational sledding, racing, or working. Based on personal sled dog experience in both racing and working sled dog teams, Miki and Julie Collins explain everything you need to know to select, raise, train and care for sled dogs, dog sledding equipment and even clothing. Learn to read and understand your dogs, as well as how to take care of injuries on and off the trail. You won t be stranded out on the trail if you study their advice on repairing harnesses and sleds. Plus, in Dog Driver, you ll get all the latest sled dog facts, know what it is really like to own mushing dogs and just what it takes to be among the top Iditarod dogs. Follow Miki and Julie through thousands of wilderness miles as they run their working sled dog teams to check on trap lines and deliver freight during the winter in the heart of Alaska.

About this title

About the Author

Twin sisters Miki and Julie Collins grew up in the Alaskan bush and have been working with sled dogs since 1974. Their working dogs run 2000 to 3000 miles each year, hauling freight and firewood and puling gear on an eighty-mile trapline or going on cross-country journeys in remote wilderness areas; most of these trips cover from 300 miles to almost 2000 miles of trail in Alaska and Canada. They have raced in the Iditarod and other major races, and earned money working in Denali National Park.

In addition to mushing sled dogs, Miki and Julie regularly write for local and regional newspapers and in magazine such as Mushing, Dog Fancy, Western Horseman, and Field & Stream. Their first book, Trapline Twins, describes their life in the bush and their many adventures with their one great love—: sled dogs.

Review

"Its contents cover what appear to be all the essentials...from purchasing or raising to outfitting, training and actually racing." --Dan Davidson, Bookends

"Serious Musher... is meant to be a manual for dogsled drivers; it is that and more." --Dog Fancy

"Captivating! A continual source of inspiration to never give up on my dream of running the Iditarod." --Timothy W. Eby

"Serious Musher...is meant to be a manual for dogsled drivers; it is that and more." --Dog Fancy

"Captivating! A continual source of inspiration to never give up on my dream of running the Iditarod." --Timothy W. Eby

Edition details

• Publisher: Alpine Publications, Inc.
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1577791614
• ISBN 13: 9781577791614
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 385