Friday, October 26, 2007
LANCE MACKEY
The one who made history
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Il marqué à jamais une page de l'histoire de notre sport
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Last week end at the ADMA Symposium I went to only ONE talk... LANCE MACKEY and I am so happy I did...
first for those of you who don't know who he is !!!
WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN !!!!!
HE IS THE FIRST MUSHER WHO WON QUEST AND IDITAROD IN THE SAME YEAR !!!!!
Lance talked about his life and dogs of course he made sure that we all know that his family is very IMPORTANT !!!
And he mention things about his dogs !!!!! He wants them CRAZY WITH LOT OF ATTITUDE.... and GOOD APPETITE... feet and confirmation is secondary !!!
He explain they chew necklines like crazy and jump and make noise... IF THEY DON'T HE DON'T WANT THEM !!!!!!!
This was nice to hear... for me.... since our dogs are always so noisy and I always have to carry many SPARE necklines and always have to watch every one of them at the starting line.... and if I stop too long I know I'll have to change necklines !!!!
Anyhow Lance talk was great and funny !!!!
He had 13 dogs in his Iditarod team that just finish the Quest ! more he had one YEARLING (less than 2 years old dog) that Finish the Quest (winning team) and then the dog went all the way to White Mountain on the Iditarod !!! AMAZING....
you can go online to ADMA web site and buy the CD I think.....
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Le week end dernier je suis allée au seminaire organizé par le club de Fairbanks. Je n'ai ecouter que un presentateur LANCE MACKEY !!!!
Si vous ne savez pas qui il est ! je ne sais pas sur quelle planete vous vivez !
Il est le premier musher a gagner le Quest et L'Iditarod la meme année !!!
Lance a parler de ca famille, sa vie et ces chiens biensure....
Il a parler de ces chiens ! ils les veux FOUX et BRUYANT !!! ils veut les voirent sauter, faire du bruit et si ils mangent les necklines PAS GRAVE !!!!
Si le chien n'est pas super exiter pour courrir il n'en veut pas !!!!
Ca m'a fait plasir d'entendre ca.... car nos chiens sont connus pour etre bruyant et destrcuteurs a l'arret !!!!
Lance avant 13 chiens dans sont attelage Iditarod qui venaient de finir le Quest ! et un super YEARLING (chien de moins de 2 ans) qui a fit le Quest (attelage vainqueur) et il a été jusuq'a White Mountain sur l'Iditarod assez incroyable non???
Les CD su seminaire sont a vendre qur le site de l'ADMA ! |
Lance at the Symposium
Lance au semaire
Posted by Magali in Other news
Friday, October 26, 2007 7:31:19 AM (Alaskan Standard Time, UTC-09:00) 
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Wednesday, October 24, 2007
TRAINING UPDATE
October 24th update
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Le 24 Octobre
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Sorry I go busy (Symposium last week end) and didn't had time to update the BLOG.
Training is going well we are still training 58 dogs.... Jacques runs teams of 18 dogs and I run teams of 16 dogs.
We are going 14 miles but start going 20 tomorrow....
We don't have much snow but the ground is white so can't complain....
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Désole j'étais pas mal occupé (séminaire le week end dernier) et je n'ai pas eu le temps de mettre a jour le BLOG.
L'entraînement se passe bien, nous entraînons toujours 58 chiens. Jacques a des attelages de 18 chiens et moi j'en prend 16 a la fois.
Nous faisons toujours 22km mais a partir de demain nous allons faire 32km.
Nous n'avons pas beaucoup de neige mais le sol est blanc donc on ne se plain pas trop....
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Jacques arrving from training.
Jacques arrivant d'entrainement.
Posted by Magali in Kennel News | Training News
Wednesday, October 24, 2007 12:36:07 PM (Alaskan Standard Time, UTC-09:00)
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Thursday, October 18, 2007
Meet Matt
Handler 2007-2008
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Handler saison 2007 - 2008
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Well he past the one month "trial" and seems to still like it here.... he may survive all winter ! who knows....
He is 21 yrs old and just got of University with a Major in Geography.
He loves the dogs and before coming here he didn't much experience with sled dogs....
Last winter he took a 5 day trekking with tour dogs and he likes it and wanted to try the "real thing" !!!
He is doing very well, he is not Lazy and is really willing to learn and most important really loves the dogs... After training he usually goes for walk with the puppies or older dogs when there is not much to do around here....
Let's hope he manage to spend a winter in Alaska !!!
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Il a passé la période "d'essais" de 1 mois et il est toujours là ! donc il doit aimé ça..... il va peut être tenir tout l'hiver... qui sait....
Il a 21 et sort de Fac de Géographie....
Ils adore les chiens et avant d'arrivée ici avait quasi pas d'expérience avec les chiens des traîneaux. L'hiver dernier il a fait un raid de 5 jours en chiens avec une societe touristique et il a décider de voir ce que c'était cette vie qui l'attire....
Il se débrouille super bien il est pas fenian et adore les chiens et veut apprendre.
Il est gaga des chiens... les après midi après les entraînements quand on a pas de trucs a faire ici il va faire de longues balades avec les chiots ou les vieux chiens....
Espérons qu'il tiendra l'hiver.... |
Posted by Magali in Kennel News
Thursday, October 18, 2007 4:42:33 PM (Alaskan Standard Time, UTC-09:00)
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007
NEW CAMERA : CANON XTI
CANON XTI
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CANON XTI
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Well with some of my PFD Money I got myself a Canon XTI (or called Canon 400D) , this is a DSLR.
I had one of my old Sigma lens for my Canon SLR (paper camera) upgraded to Digital so I have a 170-500mm Lens to play with now...
Now I want to get a 50-150mm F/2.8 but.... pricy so I have to wait I guess....
here's a photo of the camera and Lens |
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Avec une partie de mon "PFD" je me suis offert un Canon Digital DSLR c'est le model XTI (ou appeler Canon 400D).
J'ai fait chnager en Digital un de mes zoom que j'avais sur mon Canon Papier donc j'ai un 170-500mm qui va dessus maintenant.
J'ai reperer le zoom Sigma 50-150 F/2.8 mais il est cher donc je vais attendre un peu
voila un photo de mon appareil et du Zoom |
Posted by Magali in Other news
Wednesday, October 17, 2007 7:30:22 AM (Alaskan Standard Time, UTC-09:00)
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Tuesday, October 16, 2007
nice PFD this year
This is what we get for spending the winter here !!!! 
This helps may the heating oil bills !!!
Posted by Magali in Other news
Tuesday, October 16, 2007 7:13:43 AM (Alaskan Standard Time, UTC-09:00)
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Sunday, October 14, 2007
Monday, October 08, 2007
FIRST RACE DEC 15th
Sheep Mountain 150
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Sheep Moutain 240km
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First race of the season for Jacques will be the Sheep Moutain 150 miles Dec 15th and 16th.
This is a 150 miles race decided in 3 legs of 50 miles with 5hours stop in between the two legs.
More info go on the web site below: |
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La première course de la saison pour Jacques sera la Sheep Moutain 240km le 15 et 16 decembre.
C'est une course de 240km divisée en trois manche de 80km et 5 heures de repos obligatoire entre manches.
Plus d'info sur le site web indiqué ci dessous: |
SHEEP MOUNTAIN 150 web site
Posted by Magali in Racing News
Monday, October 08, 2007 4:45:24 PM (Alaskan Standard Time, UTC-09:00)
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Sunday, October 07, 2007
ARCTIC ICE
THE ARCTIC ICE IS MELTING VERY FAST
GO CHECK THE LINK BELOW AND
WATCH THE ANIMATION ON THE RIGHT SIDE WHEN YOU WILL BE ON THE UAF GI SITE
Posted by Magali in Other news
Sunday, October 07, 2007 11:53:12 AM (Alaskan Standard Time, UTC-09:00)
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Saturday, October 06, 2007
10 mushers signed up for the All Alaska Sweepstakes
Ten Musher signed up for the 400 miles race:
- Jeff King,
- Mike Santos,
- Sebastian Schnuelle,
- Aaron Burmeister,
- Jim Lanier,
- Jeff Hemann,
- Ed Iten,
- Hugh Neff,
- Shane Goosen,
- Lance Mackey
A guaranteed $100,000 purse, winner takes all.
Race Start Date: March 26, 2008 at 11:00 am Nome, Alaska
Posted by Magali in Racing News
Saturday, October 06, 2007 3:16:42 PM (Alaskan Standard Time, UTC-09:00)
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new race in scandinavia
New race 400km ( 250 miles) between Sweden and Norway.
Start March 28th 2008
Posted by Magali in Other news
Saturday, October 06, 2007 3:07:43 PM (Alaskan Standard Time, UTC-09:00)
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Wednesday, October 03, 2007
TRAINING UPDATE
12 Miles
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19 Km
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Training is going well we are doing 12 miles and now with with teams of 16 dogs.
the temperatures dropped in the morning and it is about 20f which is nice.
I got e-mail from my friend Terry Streeper in Fort Nelson Canada and they got 1 foot of snow... and today 8 inch droped in Healy...
NOTHING HERE YET !!
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L'entrainement ce passe bien nous faisons 19km et nous avons des attelages de 16 chiens.
Les températures sont enfin descendues le matin et il fait generalmenet -7°c
J'ai recu une e-mail de mon ami Terry Streeper au Canada et ils ont eu 35cm de neige et ce matin Healy (sud d'ici) a recu 12cm!!!
RIEN ICI ENCORE
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Posted by Magali in Training News
Wednesday, October 03, 2007 5:45:20 PM (Alaskan Standard Time, UTC-09:00)
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