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#dogsledding

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Anne Lienchen
Und dann ist da noch das Schlitten fahren. Der "echte" Schlittenhundesport. Mit Schnee und Kufen unter den Füßen. Der leise, stille Sport - zumindest, wenn die Hunde mal laufen. Nur das Atmen der Hunde und die Geräusche, die der Schlitten macht, wenn er durch den Schnee gezogen wird. Das ist eindrucksvoll und wundervoll. Das Foto entstand 2021 im Februar. Und zwar in Brandenburg. Bei mir um die Ecke. Da hatten wir so viel Schnee, dass eine Freundin mit ihren Huskys aus der Nähe von Hamburg angereist kam, um bei uns Schlitten zu fahren. Das war wirklich einmalig. Ein Jahr zuvor waren wir gemeinsam in Schwedich Lappland, ebenfalls um Schlitten zu fahren. Auf dem Foto seht ihr meine beiden Hunde, Mette und Bounty, im Lead (ganz vorn) und einen Hund meiner Freundin, Yukon, im Wheel.

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And then there's the sledding. The real sled dog sport. With snow and runners under your feet. The quiet, silent sport - at least when the dogs are running (it can get deafeningly loud at the start). Just the breathing of the dogs and the sounds the sled makes as it is pulled through the snow. It's impressive and wonderful. The photo was taken in February 2021. In Brandenburg. Just round the corner from where I live. We had a lot of snow so that a friend came from near Hamburg with her huskies to go sledging with us. That was really unique. A year earlier, we had travelled to Swedish Lapland together, also to go sledding. In the photo you can see my two dogs, Mette and Bounty, in the lead (at the front) and one of my friend's dogs, Yukon, in the wheel.

#dogs #dogsofpixelfed #zughundesportverbindet #dogsofmastodon #sleddogs #sleddogsportsunites #photography #dogsledding #sleddog #sled #schlitten #schnee #snow
#snow
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Bruce MacDonald

It's five above zero in Minneapolis Thursday morning, heading for a high of 16℉.

NWS: Warming trend will produce highs in the 30s this weekend and the 40s early next week.

There's an excellent piece with beautiful photography in the local paper this morning about a well-known Duluth outdoorswoman who's running the Iditarod with her “16 best friends.”

Story by Bob Timmons, photos by Anthony Souffle.

Dogged pursuit: Duluth’s Emily Ford faces her toughest winter adventure yet—Alaska’s famed Iditarod
The Minnesota Star Tribune
startribune.com/duluths-emily-

#Minnesota#dogs#DogSledding
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Paws to Trail

Second was Bib #5, Matthew Schmidt from Sawtooth Racing, Grand Marais, MN. We enjoyed some hot drinks on the shore for a while, but the next teams were apparently far behind, so we took our restless huskies back around the bay in front of our cabin to follow a moose trail.

That's our cabin with the green roof and gray-green siding on the right of the third photo.

We caught one more team passing in view between a couple of islands on the way back, but we couldn't read the bib # from this distance.

A dogsled team racing by on a frozen lake, with large boulders and dense evergreen trees on the far shore. The driver, sled and rear two pairs of dog teams are visible, with the farthest teams out front out of frame. The dogs are running happily along. The driver's bib is barely visible enough to see #5 on it.
A dog sled team is visible far in the distance across a wide frozen lake. This is another ten-dog team, and the driver has a two-part sled with a seat allowing them to rest their legs as the dogs pull.
A human, Jeff, pauses in the deep snow on the edge of an island in the middle of a frozen lake. He has a husky attached to his belt by a flexible line, and another husky stands in front of him, attached to the person taking the photo. Jeff has a black puffy winter jacket, and a camera slung over his shoulder with a long lens. He's looking back over his left shoulder, watching for dog sled teams that might be passing by behind the photographer, his goggles perched up on his forehead. There is a cabin tucked away in the trees on the far side of the lake on the right of the picture, with tall windows looking out over the lake.
A distant dog sled team approaches from across a frozen lake. In the foreground, a couple of dead cedar trunks lean out at a nearly horizontal angle from shore, framing the dogsled team on the right side of the image.
#GunflintMailRun#Mushing#DogSledding
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Paws to Trail

Gunflint Mail Run is on today! We shuffled out with our huskies and our Hok skis on Poplar Lake to watch the first teams return on the first leg of the race from a safe distance on the shore of an island near the race track.

Here is Bib #8, Rita Wehseler of Stoney Creek Sled Dogs from Tofte, MN, first back on Poplar Lake.*

* We presume they're first! We had been out for a while and hadn't seen anyone else before. This race doesn't have trackers and isn't posting live to their website. gunflintmailrun.com

[Edited to fix typo in hashtags]

A ten-dog sled team races across a frozen lake, from right to left. The driver has a big furry hood and bib number 8 clearly visible. The dogs are running hard, tongues out, having a great time. A single orange poll stuck in the snow marks the trail. White cedar and other evergreens lean out over the far shore of the frozen lake.
#GunflintMailRun#Mushing#DogSledding
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Allie

January 7, 2024 - Day 372 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 407

Game: The Red Lantern

Platform: Steam
Released: Dec 9, 2021
Installed: Jan 7, 2024
Unplayed: 0d
Playtime: 34m

Rating: 3 - OK

The Red Lantern is a first-person narrative-driven game about dog-sledding, with some roguelite & survival elements.

It's the sixth game in this month's Humble Choice bundle, and it's an interesting title, that I wouldn't have picked to play.

Making a snow-change, you open the game by meeting a series of dogs, needing to select 4 of them to build a dog-sledding team in Alaska.

Once you've picked your doggos, you reach your destination, and have to make a several-day sled trip to a remote cabin through a procedurally generated environment. The game is the story of that trip.

If you fail, you wake up again in your van, "from a nightmare", and start the sled-trip over, with more resources based on your previous experiences, with your ultimate goal to reach the cabin that's marked by the red lantern hanging outside.

If you're a dog person, this game might definitely be up your alley.

The Red Lantern is:

3: OK

#TheRedLantern#FirstPerson#Survival
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