Frosty Fest, which is sponsored by the Gurnee Park District, features ice sculpting, horse-drawn carriage rides,
dog-sled demonstrations, sledding and more at the Bittersweet Golf Club, 875 Almond Road, Gurnee.
But rations left on the trip out had vanished and Scott's orders to Evans to send a
dog-sled team to his party went undelivered, revealed Australian professor Chris Turney.
From which French word does the
dog-sled command "Mush!" derive?
Antarctica and the Southern Ocean, for instance, boasts pictures of the Vokstok Station, Adelie penguins, and a
dog-sled team, plus krill and cruise ships.
She has sailed the 'wrong way' round the world against the prevailing winds and currents, trekked with bears and cougars and opened a
dog-sled trail inside the Arctic Circle to the northernmost tip of Europe.
Some 67 mushers and their eager dogs began the gruelling trek to Nome at the weekend in the Iditarod
dog-sled race, with a ceremonial start amid the sounds of yapping huskies and crunching snow.
The real excitement, for me, came elsewhere: on the snow-scooter track, the
dog-sled runs and at the foot of a frozen alpine waterfall.
She and Colly start out in first place in the
dog-sled race and go through several checkpoints still in the lead.
Hike!" and the dogs started pulling and fell silent."They are happy when they run," said Kalle Leissner, a bearded Swedish musher whose dog teams are part of a global boom in sled-dog racing and tourism that stretches from the snowy woods of Alaska to the sandy Outback of Australia.Tens of thousands of people in dozens of countries compete in
dog-sled racing on snow and, farther south, in proliferating events known as "dry land" races, in which dogs pull bikes or scooters--or even runners, according to the International Federation of Sleddog Sports.
Stacey Brigham, one of the owners of Northern Illusion, an outfitter that offers
dog-sled trips in Warwick, said many people are surprised when they find out that dog-sledding trips are available in Massachusetts.
Currently, the two communities co-ordinate special events such as snowmobiling, and
dog-sled and drag races.
dog sled - a sled pulled by dogs