About Wolf Moon
May 14th 2009
I am Alice White, a dog musher from Northewest Georgia. During the mushing season, I work as a handler for Blake and Jennifer Freking at Manitou Crossing Kennel in Finland, Minnesota. MCK has around 80 dogs (mostly Siberian huskies, although there are a few Alaskan huskies in the kennel), many of whom are training for distance sled dog races. I help train and have been lucky enough to run their puppy teams in the 2009 Beargrease Mid-Distance race (150 miles) and 2009 Wolftrack Classic (60 miles).
During the Summer months, I live in Armuchee, Georgia, where I grew up. There I have Wolf Moon Kennel, which is a micro-kennel. I do dryland sports like canicross, bikejoring, packing and (my favorite) scootering. Unfortunately Georgia’s warm climate doesn’t lend itself well to sled dog sports.
I now have two sled dogs at Wolf Moon, both Siberian huskies. The first is Calypso, whom I adopted as a puppy from Kristari Kennels in 2005. She is from show lines but still loves mushing, especially recreationally. She has participated in both recreational and competitive scootering events across the Southeast and enjoys going on recreational runs in Minnesota. My other husky is Susan, a yearling from Manitou Crossing Kennels. I worked with Susan and her sisters during the 2008-2009 racing season and ended up bringing her back to Georgia with me and Calypso in Spring 2009.
Wolf Moon has big goals. I hope to eventually run a Northern sled dog kennel myself and compete in long-distance sled dog races like the Iditarod and Yukon Quest.
I also competed in the 2007 and 2008 Casper Mountain Sled Dog Races in Casper, Wyoming, with a team of dogs from Deer Creek Kennel in Glenrock. The Continental Kennel Club sponsored us for the 2006/2007 and 2007/2008 seasons. I also competed with Calypso in the 1-dog scootering division at the 2008 Blue Ridge Dryland Challenge in Damascus, Virginia.
To read more about our races, be sure to check out my Events page.
In March 2008, I worked at Northern Sky Lodge & Kennel near Fairbanks, Alaska. Here I helped care for 22 Alaskan Huskies. They were tour dogs and I helped hook dogs up for the people taking sled dog tours, and did a lot of other kennel jobs like feeding and cleaning. Be sure to read my Alaska page to find out more.
One of my hobbies is writing Dog & Sled magazine. This quarterly mushing newsletter features interviews, news, stories and articles on the mushing world. In 2007, I finally put the magazine online so anyone can read the most recent issues. Visit Dog & Sled online at http://www.dx4solutions.com/dogandsled/
Thanks so much for visiting the Wolf Moon website. I hope you find it interesting and informative. Also be sure to check out the Manitou Crossing Kennels blog to read more about them and see pictures.
Page last updated May 14, 2009
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