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  • Once, when Jacob Kent rose to his feet and searched the trail with care, Cardegee was frightened, but the dog-sled had struck a piece of trail running parallel with a jam, and remained out of sight till the danger was past.

    THE MAN WITH THE GASH 2010

  • Almost 100 mushers with some 500 dogs are competing in the Sedivackuv Long dog-sled race in the area.

    Photos of the Day: Jan. 26 2012

  • Amundsen's dog-sled journey to the pole is covered in a single chapter; another chapter is devoted to Ms. Cox's own experience waiting for a flight at an airport.

    In Brief: Adventure Michael J. Ybarra 2011

  • From across the frozen sea, the sailors spot a gigantic figure on a dog-sled crossing the ice (I: L4: 3), and later see a haggard, wild-eyed man who is pursuing him, stranded with his dogsled on an ice floe.

    Plot Summary 2010

  • Alaskan snowshoes were long and narrow, with an upturned toe, used to break a trail for the dog-sled teams; Michigan folk had more tennis-racquet shaped shoes, useful for hunters carrying heavy loads of elk and buffalo.

    Weatherwatch: Snowshoes date back to Asia over 6,000 years ago 2011

  • The family also charged for flights around the state, including trips to Alaska events such as the start of the Iditarod dog-sled race and the Iron Dog snowmobile race, a contest that Todd Palin won.

    mjh's blog — 2008 — September 2008

  • I agree that conflicts with his global warming agenda but when the wolves are closing on the dog-sled you have to have a puppy dog to throw to them.

    McCain Takes Lead In Gallup For First Time In General Election 2009

  • There are women-only vacations to dog-sled in Alaska, cattle-ranch in Montana, hike the Inca Trail, dive the Caymans, cruise Antarctica and study ancient goddesses in Turkey.

    Women For Women 2008

  • It was soon discovered that one already existed, and that the tiny house that had published it — Epicenter Press in Kenmore, Wash., whose publisher is its only full-time employee and which specializes in books about dog-sled racing — was about to make a killing.

    Sarah, Palin and All: Editors Lunge for Unbaked Alaska 2008

  • Any hope for a quick resolution faded when the Burr Trail became the center of an esoteric but important dispute over who controls the fights of way of thousands of backcountry roads, stock trails and even dog-sled routes that traverse millions of acres of federal lands.

    'Keep It Like It Wuz' 2008

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