OK, so at the end of the 95 mile road into Denali, you end up in Kantishna. This isn't really a village but more of a settlement. There is a beautiful lodge and restaurant....but you would not believe how many mosquito's there are there!!! Anyway, we had about a 2 hour break and had the choice of panning for gold or a seminar about dog sledding. We chose the dog sledding event. It was actually very interesting. The young man who made the presentation trains dogs with his father, who won the Iditarod. After the presentation we went outside and he showed us how they spend the summer training the dogs by pulling him on a 4-wheeler. The dogs were so cute...made Ian and I miss our dogs. Interestingly enough, Huskies make the worst sled dogs...they do not like to get wet. I had heard about this before on my last trip to Alaska; that the best dogs are actually "mutts". This family breeds Malmutes with Laboradore Retrievers, and in some cases Irish Setters. He also said that they always use border collies for the front runners, and they are the most intelligent in learning the commands. Incidently, no one says "mush"!!!!
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