4-Day Alaska Dog-Sled Adventure! (episode 31)

After a year of growing and training, the puppies Noun and Verb join their older brothers for the biggest run of their lives.
This ain't the Iditarod, but we pull off 20-mile days and have lots left in the tank. With the dogs' help, Robbin and I complete a circumnavigation of the White Mountains Recreation Area, traveling cabin to cabin. We've done this on our own before: it was work! This time, with the dogs' help, it was a vacation. Not that everything was easy: we encounter ice, overflow, snowmachines, big climbs, and steep descents. But that wasn't the adventure. The adventure was watching the dogs work together, mile after mile, and thinking about how far we'd come this year.
#husky #alaska #fairbanks #sleddog #dogtraining #adventure

[@stoobuttgirl]

This is the content we need right now!

[@puncAF]

Thanks! It was really nice being out of the news cycle for a few days. Tempted to head back out...

[@christinearmington]

I used to fantasize about winter camping 🏕❄️⛄️👍 Bravo 🎉

[@juheepark7123]

I'm supposed to be studying for finals but instead am living through your videos of the huskies and Alaska instead and I have 0 regrets

[@marikoshirazi8614]

Thank you Chris and Robbin and Alipaw and Athi and Amos and Goober and Noun and Verb for sharing your journeys and your journey with us. We see love and trust and hard work and beauty.

[@puncAF]

Thanks Mari!

[@toniah6780]

Really going to miss watching videos from you. Thank you for sharing the past year with us as the pups grew and trained.

[@puncAF]

Hi Tonia! Thanks! (I actually started that musher interview about training a lead dog without another lead dog, but then I had a problem with my cameras, and then... covid. So. Not sure when (or if) that content is going to get made. But I keep remembering other videos that I had planned to make... maybe there will be a couple more here and there. )

[@atmccomb]

Thank you, Chris for making this great video series. I adopted a husky named Piper from the shelter a year ago and stumbled across your videos soon after searching "how to train a sled dog". I also live in Fairbanks so I enjoyed recognizing the trails and sights of your videos as well as keeping up with your experience with dog training. I ended up training Piper to be a great bike-jor puppy. We also went on a capstone trip on the same 100-mile loop this last weekend and really appreciated the kindling and chopped wood you left behind. Noun and Verb's sister IO was bike-joring as well. You should have seen our excitement reading their names in the log book. All dogs did amazing!

[@puncAF]

Hi Adam! Good to hear you appreciated the wood! I always enjoy imagining that people are happy to find an easy fire set up when they arrive at a cabin. Hope your weather was as nice as ours!

[@christinearmington]

Awesome story!

[@moiraomalley725]

WOW! Whoa! Nice shots and scenery! What a trip!

[@puncAF]

Glad you liked it!

[@junqueiraveinotte5966]

I’m going to miss this, thanks so much for making these videos!

[@notprophetmoses]

new subscriber here🙌🙌 btw your videos are awesome! binge watching them while i'm on quarantine lol should have discovered your channel a lot sooner. thanks for sharing you and your team's wonderful journey to us. Godbless always.

[@Gomukuful]

Love it! Nice video Chris.

[@puncAF]

Thanks for letting me know you enjoyed it!

[@marikoshirazi8614]

That's Verb.

[@christinearmington]

Wow 🤩. This is just the best!!! ❄️❄️❄️🏕💥 I started out thinking that a 20 minute video was long. Now I just wish it was longer - what you ate, what the dogs ate, what you slept on, in. Details 😁🤩🥳💯🤗

[@puncAF]

Hello! I'm not checking comments on the KZbin much, but I'm glad you enjoyed the videos and our story! I'm especially glad you enjoyed this video. It was a great trip...