We are in La Pesse a small village in the Jura Mountains and are staying with our Friends Muriel and Daniel and Leo Mellina.

Ken Anderson and his wife Gwen Holdman are with us ! the 9 of us total are invading the little village and we are showing making discover Ken the great Cheese of France !! the Wine testing is goind well too.....

Ken realize finally what real food is and really love the TARTTIFETTE !!!! he even eats it for breakfast !!!!

We are training the dogs on very nice trails every day.

Daniel made us the sled from ANTIPODE and Ken bought one and loves it now Gwen wants one now too

Our team !!

from left to right:

Aurelie, Jacques, Michael and Sylvain

Wednesday, January 04, 2006 12:35:16 AM (Alaskan Standard Time, UTC-09:00)     

   We arrived in Frankfurt  Dec 31st at 6 am.

Interesting landing due to freezing rain and snow on the airport ground.

the 56 dogs arrived in great shape after doing the vet examination and custom e drove to La Pesse France and arrived there at about 10pm.

My friend Pascale (in the middle) and my two handlers that stayed home to take care and train the dogs...

in the Luftzanza warehouse in Frankfurt !!

Saturday, December 31, 2005 12:29:54 AM (Alaskan Standard Time, UTC-09:00)     

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL OF YOU, we had a great Diner and evening last night we went to our friends and Neighboor Pascale and Tony and we spend the evening together, they are "our family" here in Alaska.

Santa was nice and we had nice presents.

Here's a groups picture from left to right: Michael and Karine (our french Handlers), Tony, Duncan and Pascale, Jacques and Sylvain (our Quebec handler), then Will (Tony's handler), me and Keops and Sid (the Golden Retriever).

HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL OF YOU

Sunday, December 25, 2005 8:12:39 AM (Alaskan Standard Time, UTC-09:00)     

We went back to the BLM Park White Mountains...

We had a great time and the weather wasn't too cold, about 5 below in the morning.

The dogs did great, some yearlings got tired but this is good training to see the one that can go to France!

We took Memphis and Janet for the night in the Cabin... Janet really enjoy my North Face sleeping bag!!!

Our handler Micheal came with us he had mostly yearlings in his team

here's a photo when he arrives at the truck today

We may go there again before we leave but few inches of new snow would be nice....

Bye, Magali

Tuesday, December 20, 2005 8:49:38 PM (Alaskan Standard Time, UTC-09:00)     

We went yesterday and today to the White Moutains BLM park. We went to spend the night to the Cache Moutain Cabin, 40 miles from the Parking.

We had a great time ! the dogs did great !!

It got really warm and it snowed some in the evening

In the morning we had about 2 inch of fresh snow and temperature of about 35!!!

We plan on doing at least one more time the same trip !!!!!

We had 3 teams of 12 dogs and to go to the cabin 40 miles away it took us between 3h40 and 4h on the way out and Jacques on the way back was "flying" and did the 40 miles in warm temperatures in 3h27mn...

We are please with the dogs  the yearling did very well....

Friday, December 16, 2005 8:40:29 PM (Alaskan Standard Time, UTC-09:00)     

In 17 days the dogs will fly to Europe !

We will travel with Luftanza cargo and land in Germany trhen drive to the Jura Mountain to meet our friends Muriel and Daniel whom we will stay with until the start of the race.

Daniel is the one who build our racing sleds, his compagny name is Antipode (used to be Extrapole)

28 dogs will be going to France...

The link to follow the race is http://www.grandeodyssee.com

Tuesday, December 13, 2005 7:06:07 PM (Alaskan Standard Time, UTC-09:00)     

Hello,

This is our new blog...

We plan on posting here log about our racing travel and also training.

we hope you will like this new feature on our site.

Tuesday, December 13, 2005 9:28:51 AM (Alaskan Standard Time, UTC-09:00)