Wednesday, April 09, 2008

HANDLER BACK HOME

Back home

         

Retour en France

Our handler Matt went back home and he is now in Paris...

He was a great handler, very hard worker, pleasant to be around and most important LOVED the dogs and was taking pride on making sure his chores and job was done right....

Now he has to get use to life in busy Paris again without dogs...
  Notre handler Matt est de retour en France....

Il a été un super handler, travaillant dur, plaisant et surtout il mettait beaucoup d'importance a ce que ces taches et travails qu'il avait a faire ici soit fait exactement comme nous le voulions... et le plus important de tous il ADORAIT les chiens.....

Maintenant il doit se rehabitué a la vie Parisienne !!!!



Matt & Keops in front of the Tripod on the Tanan River in Nenana
Matt & Keops devant le Tripod sur la Rviere Tanana à Nenana...


Posted by Magali in Other news
Wednesday, April 09, 2008 2:05:30 PM (Alaskan Standard Time, UTC-09:00)  #   
 Sunday, April 06, 2008

Terry Streeper wins Arctic Circle Championship

Terry STREEPER won the 3 day race of 25 miles each...
CONGRATULATIONS TO MY FRIEND

RESULTS HERE FOR THE SPRINT RACE - 
CLIQUEZ ICI POUR RESULTATS COURSE DE SPRINT


 

Posted by Magali in Racing News
Sunday, April 06, 2008 1:19:23 PM (Alaskan Standard Time, UTC-09:00)  #   

John Baker wins Kobuk 440

Local musher John Baker wins the Kokuk 440

Race Results here- Cliquez Ici pour resultats course Longue Distance


 

Posted by Magali in Racing News
Sunday, April 06, 2008 1:16:24 PM (Alaskan Standard Time, UTC-09:00)  #   
 Saturday, April 05, 2008

Arctic Circle Championship

Here's the link to follow the Arctic Circle Championship races in Kotzebue
ARCTIC CIRCLE

Voici le lien pour suivre la course de vitesse : Arctic Circle Championship à Kotzebue
ARCTIC CIRCLE


Posted by Magali in Racing News
Saturday, April 05, 2008 12:23:17 PM (Alaskan Standard Time, UTC-09:00)  #   

Follow the Kobuk 440

 Click on the map to follow the race
Cliquez sur la carte pour suivre la course

Kobuk map


Posted by Magali in Racing News
Saturday, April 05, 2008 12:19:48 PM (Alaskan Standard Time, UTC-09:00)  #   
 Tuesday, April 01, 2008

Couple of days with friends

Visit at Schneider Lake

         

Visite chez Catherine et Bernard

Last week Jacques and I went for couple of days to visit our friends Catherine and Bernard in the Trapper Creek area.

They live in remove place only accessible by dog team, snowmachine in winter or Argo in summer.

Jacques skijor with Loly the 11 miles form the parking to the cabin, and I drove the Skandik SWT with Keops, Keops ran 7 miles out of the 11 to go to the Cabin !!!

They build a beautiful log home on a lake  by themself with tree from their properties...
they are an OUTSTANDING view of Denali from their living room...

We had a great time.... here's some photos below....
  La semaine dernière Jacques et moi sommes allé rentre visite a nos amis Catherine et Bernard qui habitent dans la région de Trapper Creek.

Ils habitent dans un endroit hors des routes accessible uniquement en hiver par chiens ou snowmachine et en été par engin amphibie.

Jacques a fait fu Skijoring avec Loly pour les 18km entre le parking et la maison. Moi j'ai voyager avec la snowmachine et Keops, qui a courrut 11km des 18 pour aller chez eux !

Ils ont construit eux meme une superbe maison en rondins au bord d'un lac  avec les arbres de leur terrains... Et ils ont une vue de Denali EXCEPTIONNELLE....

On a euun super séjours, regarder quelques photos ci dessous.


THE CABIN / LEUR CABANE


VIEW FROM THE LIVING ROOM / VUE DEPUIS LEUR SALON


DENALI FROM THEIR DECK / DENALI DEPUIS LEUR BALCON


INSIDE / INTERIEUR


 

JACQUES & LOLY SKIJORING


KEOPS & DENALI




THERE WAS GREATS NORTHERN LIGHTS EVERY NIGHTS
NOUS AVONS EUX DE SUPERBES AURORES BOREALES TOUS LES SOIRS











Posted by Magali in Other news
Tuesday, April 01, 2008 7:11:58 AM (Alaskan Standard Time, UTC-09:00)  #   
 Saturday, March 29, 2008

MITCH SEAVEY WINNER OF THE ALL ALASKA SWEEPSTAKE

 100 000 $ for the winner !!!
THE RACE THAT START 
OUR SPORT HAS A NEW WINNER !!!


photo by Jan DeNapoli

Jeff King was 10mn behind Mitch 
and Lance Mackey 2hr30mn

 

 


Posted by Magali in Other news | Racing News
Saturday, March 29, 2008 7:16:28 AM (Alaskan Standard Time, UTC-09:00)  #   
 Wednesday, March 26, 2008

All Alaska Sweepstake starts today

follow mushing history :

MUSHERS

race standings


Posted by Magali in Racing News
Wednesday, March 26, 2008 7:36:42 AM (Alaskan Standard Time, UTC-09:00)  #   
 Sunday, March 23, 2008

ICE ALASKA 2008

 Our handler Matt and I went to see the Ice Alaska show this week end
Notre handler Matt et moi sommes allé voir les scultures de glaces ce week end























Posted by Magali in My Favorite Photos | Other news
Sunday, March 23, 2008 3:21:24 PM (Alaskan Standard Time, UTC-09:00)  #   
 Friday, March 21, 2008

TOP 3 YEARLINGS FOR THIS SEASON

Best of the young ones

         

Meilleurs Jeunes

Looking at this season training and racing the 3 best yearlings are :
CAST
CIPHER
SNEFRU


They were all racing with us this winter.
Cast raced with Jacques in Wyoming.... Cipher and Snefru with me.
Snefru ran 3 stages in lead for me in Wyoming as well as one day in the Seeley Lake Stage race.

After the Stage races those 3 made the transition to faster pace with no problems.
Cast ran 3 days of the Rondy with Jacques and Snefru 2 days.
Snefru ran 2 days of the ONAC for me and Cast and Cipher ran all 3 days.

We bred Cipher to Jago and she is due end of April....
  En regardant les entrainements et courses de cette hiver les 3 meilleurs jeunes sont:
CAST
CIPHER 
SNEFRU


Ils ont tous courruent cet hiver avec nous.
Cast était dans l'attelage de Jacques au Wyoming, Cipher et Snefry courraient avec moi. Snrefu a fait 3 étapes en tête au Wyoming et une à Seeley Lake.

Apres les courses a étapes ces 3 là n'ont pas eu de problemes pour s'adapeter a l'entrainement plsu rapide pour la catégorie Ilimitée.
Cast à courrut les 3 jours du Rendez Vous et Snefru 2 jours.
Cast et Cipher ont courrut 3 jours de l'ONAC pour moi et Snefru les deux premiers jours.

Nous avons fait saillir Cipher par Jago et elle devrait avoir des bébés fin avril...


CIPHER


CAST


SNEFRU



Posted by Magali in Kennel News | Racing News
Friday, March 21, 2008 3:35:19 PM (Alaskan Standard Time, UTC-09:00)  #   
 Thursday, March 20, 2008

PUPPY TRAINING PHOTOS

 All the puppies are harness broke and are doign very well here's some photos
Tous les chiots ont été débourés et travaillent bien , voici des photos















Posted by Magali in Training News
Thursday, March 20, 2008 2:21:24 PM (Alaskan Standard Time, UTC-09:00)  #   
 Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Visit from friends

Tonight our friend Kate and Warren Palfrey arrived.
Warren just finished Iditarod... in 26th position

It is so good to see them... hopefully they stay a little before heading back toward Yellowknife !!!!

Posted by Magali in Other news
Tuesday, March 18, 2008 10:36:19 PM (Alaskan Standard Time, UTC-09:00)  #   
 Monday, March 17, 2008

Racing season finished

Season is over

         

Saison terminée

The ONAC will be our last race for this season.

Let's says it didn"'t go as "planned"... I made mistake and I will hopefully learn from them....
Now we just train puppies ! this is fun !!!

Below some ONAC photos.... some below to a FLICKR members from Fairbanks
one is from my friend Pascale and some from my other friend Scott Chochon....
  L'ONAC était la dernière course de notre saison..

On peut dire que tout n'a pas été comme prévu ! j'ai fait des erreures et j'espere "apprendre de ces erreures" !
Maintenant on entraine les chiots c'est marrant !

Ci dessous des photos de l'ONAC certains viennent de Membres de FLICKR et d'autre de Pascale et de mon ami Scott Chochon.




Argos and me Start day 3 / Argos et moi au Départ jour 3


Départ jour 3 / Start day 3 (Onyx & Google in lead)


déaprt jour 3 (Cumin et Cast) / Day 3 start (Cumin and Cast in wheel)


Day 2 Creamers field / Jour 2 dans le champ de Creamers


Départ jour 1 Loly et Google en tete
Start day 1 Loly and Google in lead


Day 1 / Jour 1


Day 3 / Jour 3 - Google and Onyx in lead


Day 3 / Jour 3  Google and Onyx in lead


 

Posted by Magali in Flickr photos | My Favorite Photos | Racing News
Monday, March 17, 2008 5:28:11 PM (Alaskan Standard Time, UTC-09:00)  #   
 Thursday, March 13, 2008

ONAC TRAINING PHOTOS

Photos from my last training run last Tuesday, photos taken by my handler Matt.
Photos de mon dernier entrainement avant l'ONAC, mardi dernier. Photos prisent par mon handler Matt


Before training I have to groom the trail first !
Avant l'entrainement je dois dammer la piste !!

 




 











The team for tomorow is  /  L'attelage pour demain est

Loly - Google
Konga - Cumin
Onyx - Argos
Diamond - Jago
Jasper
Scooby - Wind
Snefru - Cast
Cipher - Giza



Posted by Magali in Racing News
Thursday, March 13, 2008 9:24:48 PM (Alaskan Standard Time, UTC-09:00)  #   

ONAC TRAIL

Fast Trail

         

Piste dure

This morning was the musher meeting for the ONAC then we went check out the trail.
Buddy Streeper took me on the back of his 4 stroke Skidoo.... 
We started from the ramp at the end of 2nd street.... the river is nice the slough is icy, bad on some spot and some spots are perfect ! 
Creamers field NO SNOW... I don't think you can hook down in the field at all....
The dog trail don't have much snow either... the Overflow in the 30 miles is not very nice and Long but I think the trail crew will do their best to make it safe for Sunday...

Tomorow the race starts at 1pm : Below some info from the ADMA web site: 


The 63rd annual GCI Open North American Championship Sled Dog Race will take place on 2nd Avenue in downtown Fairbanks, March 14, 15 and 16. The start order for Friday will be posted when available. The draw and "Meet the Mushers" event for this year's race wll be Wednesday, March 12 at 7:00 p.m. at the Westmark Hotel.

Racing begins at 1:00 p.m. each day. Coverage of the 2008 race will be broadcast locally on radio station KFAR 660 AM and audio streaming on their website, www.kfar660.com. Look on the left side of the page for the box that says "Listen Live." Coverage is scheduled from 12:00–4:00 p.m. each race day.

Webcams should be available showing 2nd Avenue from the Springhill Suites by Marriott webcam and the river ramp from the Pro Music webcam.

To view each day's results and download timesheets for the next day, go to our 2007–2008 race schedule and scroll down to the Open North American section.

  Ce matin avait lieu de musher Meeting et ensuite nous avons été faire une reconnaissance de la piste. Je suis aller avec Buddy Streeper sur sa nouvelle snowmachine 4 temps Skidoo.... La piste a très peu de neige, certains endroits sont très glacé et y'a meme de l'herbe ! sur certaines sections il ne faut meme pas penser planter l'ancre !!!

pour ceux d'entre vous qui parlent et comprennent l'anglais vous pouvez suivre en direct la course sur le site de la radio :    
KFAR RADIO

et il y a deux Camera internet : 
MARRIOTT HOTEL
 et
PRO MUSIC WEBCAM







Posted by Magali in Racing News
Thursday, March 13, 2008 3:46:45 PM (Alaskan Standard Time, UTC-09:00)  #