Dogsled Delight
Mya Michalik, Oivia Sears, Thomas Niblock, period 3&7
About The Dogs
- Samoyed
- Alaskan malamute
- siberian husky
- wolves
- stand about 2 feet
- 40-80 lbs
- working animals
- physical features help them survive-thick coarse coats dense undercoat for warmth
- must be ages 14-17
- burn 10,000 calories each race
- survive in harsh conditions
- enjoy the cold
About the Sleds
- can pull 500-700 lbs.
- komatic-sleds
- transportation in snowy climate
- pulls sleds across ice and snow
- a sled team usually 12 dogs
- team is attached from a 12 feet rope- pituq
- they can hold up to 1,000 pounds of cargo
- the musher controls the sled and dogs
Training/comands
- hike-get moving
- kissing sound-speed up
- gee-turn right
- ha-turn left
- easy-slow down
- whoa-stop
- onby-pass another team
- training is harder in the wilderness than training a house pet
- takes a lot of discipline
- train for tournaments
- hall sleds around
History of Dogledding
- used for delivering mail
- supplies
- news
- patrolling unit
- 1,000 years back from when it started
- 1970 the tradition of dogsledding almost stopped
- dogsledding holiday
Racing
- race in more than 20 countries
- people pay more attention to musher during races than the dogs
- different teams-sledding dog teams
- Alaska and Canada are the most popular for tournaments
- winter Olympics
- Iditarod is a kind of race
Sleds
- light weight material
- sleds can hold to 1000 pounds of cargo
- a dogsledding tem is about 12 dogs
- team is attached to a sled with a 12 foot rope
- transportation is snowy and ice climates
- can pull 500-700 pounds
- kotimac-type of sled
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