For instance, for feeding, we just got a bunch of bear fat from the taxidermist here in town and we have been slicing it up on a bandsaw to make little chunks that we're going to feed them all winter when they want a little fat or a snack. And it's a great pleasure and a great deal of effort.
We spend an incredible amount of our time in our lives just working with the dogs and taking care of the dogs. They are a lot of work and a lot of love. And the secret is to ask a musher, "How many dogs are you feeding?" That's how you get a number. You will get an hour-long circuitous conversation about, "Well, we have this many retirees and we have this many puppies and we're fostering a few dogs, and one of our dogs is at a friend's house and the fosters are only here for a little while." You will just get stories and not a number. I'll tell you a secret: You never ask a musher how many dogs they have because you're never going to get a straight answer. You never ask a musher how many dogs they have because you're never going to get a straight answer. She was once dragged for a quarter of a mile, bouncing along on her stomach struggling to hold until she could get the sled upright. "But, in fact, they will just be happier, because they can run even faster, and they will keep going and you'll be left completely alone in the mountains without even your supplies that are in the sled."īraverman says that the first time she drove a sled she tipped over seven times. "People have this idea that if you let go - if you fall off the sled or if the sled tips over and you let go - the dogs will wait for you," Braverman says.
1, she says, is to never let go of the sled or the dogs.
She's also appeared on the Discovery reality show Naked and Afraid, in which she and a partner were left in a remote area of South Africa without clothes, food or water for three weeks.īlair Braverman, an adventurer and sled dog racer who finished Alaska's nearly 1,000-mile long Iditarod race in 2019, has some advice for aspiring mushers. Whether you've run more marathons than you can remember, or you're just getting started, you'll find the inspiration you need to get out there, keep pushing, and run like a mother.Blair Braverman is a contributing editor to Outside Magazine.
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