With running, they are returning to their ancestral roots as hunters, herders, retrievers and sled pullers. |
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I had enough money in the bank to buy gas, food, and perhaps rent a dog sled if it came down to that. |
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The physical definition lies in a small sled, an extreme athlete and an empty bobsled track. |
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The original Chinook was a sled dog Walden had used while freighting supplies for gold miners in the Yukon several years before. |
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The Vasa Trainer operates on a sled that rolls on a track and comes equipped with all sorts of cords, straps, pulleys and a slew of accessories. |
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We'll disassemble the bike, pull all the parts in a sled on the glacier, then dump them in a backpack and carry it to the summit. |
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Not long ago exploration didn't require much more than a dog sled, a compass, a modest stake, and a whole lot of gumption. |
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At one point Brendan's sled tipped over and he fell into the snow and no one bothered to help him up. |
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He was not a lumberjack, or a fur trader, and he didn't live in an igloo or eat blubber, or own a dog sled. |
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A productive borrowing from Micmac through French is toboggan, a runnerless wooden sled still used by children. |
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Over the course of the journey, their dog sled is pursued by a hungry pack of wolves. |
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Some villages are so remote that they are accessible only by air, snowmobile, or dog sled during the winter. |
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There is no longer a chance White Fang will ever get along with the other dogs, for he is now made leader on the dog sled. |
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Modern sled runners are covered with removable plastic runner shoes which can be changed for different conditions, or when worn. |
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His team pulled the sled deep into the night, Jason shouting orders left and right while he stood on the runners at the back of the sled. |
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Masson confirms there are few better ways to experience the winter wonderland that is la Belle Province than from the back of a dog sled. |
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One year a woman had to be sent to the hospital after an accident with a dog sled. |
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Before the advent of the snowmobile, she would run in front of the dog sled team in snowshoes to break the snow and clear a path. |
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It came from the west, and the sled carried a bulky man, 18 Samoyeds, and a large parcel of whale oil and furs. |
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Since the sled could not carry all three of us, one person mushed the dog team while the remaining two skied behind on the trail. |
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Dog sled and snowshoe races were also held when the Arctic winter night drew to an end, enhancing the endurance of a resilient people. |
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We travel by komatik, which is a wooden sled lashed together and pulled behind a snowmobile. |
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Buck lead the sled team for the journey from the Alaskan coast across the snowy wild lands to Dawson City. |
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In the bob skeleton event, competitors travel on a sled on their stomach, head first down a track. |
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Skiers and snowshoers should also keep control of ski poles to avoid the sled as it goes by. |
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Time was when all you needed to get around in the chilly North was a fur coat, a wooden sled and a good team of dogs. |
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The man tries to explain his state of mind by comparing it to going downhill on a snow sled, but Jonas does not know what sled and snow are. |
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A covered carriage with sled runners pulled by four strong horses is awaiting its passengers. |
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When he came to patches of open water, he donned a special swimsuit over his winter clothes and then swam across, dragging the sled behind him. |
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She threw herself onto the sled and slid down through the fresh snow to the bottom. |
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It was a common sight to see a team of six to eight men pushing and pulling a wooden sled up the hill to deliver artillery ammunition. |
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Mr Cooney, who already holds the Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award, has had to pull a 200 lb sled across the snow and ice. |
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She places whatever she needs in a snow sled and pulls it wherever she needs to go. |
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One time, we went to a cabin by the frozen Yukon river that you could only get to by sled dog and the chap there served us cups of tea. |
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From San Francisco, he is transported yet again to Seattle, Washington to be sold as a sled dog. |
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The gallery ends with a display contrasting an old-time musher with someone geared for modern dog sled travel. |
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Several hours on the sled and I was beginning to consider myself a real hard-core musher. |
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Before the advent of the snowmobile, Ms. McLeod would run in front of the dog sled team in snowshoes to break the snow and clear a path. |
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A Reserve environmental engineer officer, he is the brakeman for the top-ranked four-man sled team in the world. |
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Just before landing, the retros of the landing sled would fire, and the Blazer would touch down. |
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My feet were so heavy I could barely pick them up, let alone jog along beside the sled to give the dogs a breather on the uphill. |
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Once the team gets a few miles up the trail, the ballast sled is cut loose. |
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The boy and girl are already running to meet the sled driver, squealing and screaming with delight. |
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But controlling the sled is an extremely delicate task because only the front runners are steerable. |
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They processed the grain there using a threshing sled to separate the stalks or chaff from the grain. |
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Zachery, with his usual flair for talking a good game but chickening out when the crunch came, at first refused outright to sled down the hill. |
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Shop for a sled with your child to ensure you get the right size and that your child's head stays securely in place. |
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The sled slews to the side, plowing a furrow in the trail-crust. |
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Anybody can push a merry-go-round, or push their buddy on sled down a hill. |
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Alas, she was thrown onto the rocket sled of celebrity and has ridden to heights never before seen. |
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Called by some the Old Bering Sea Cultures, these early inhabitants traveled by kayak and umiak skin boats in the warmer months, and by sled in the winter. |
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These athletes have had to adjust to being forced with G-factors around the bends of the course that are 3 or 4 G, and staying with the Skeleton sled to the bottom. |
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Jackson expects to eventually find himself in the back seat of a Tomcat roaring through the sky at speeds many times faster than a skeleton sled travels. |
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One evening at the Olympic Park, I bump into Lincoln DeWitt, who until 1997 couldn't tell you the difference between a skeleton sled and a Flexible Flyer. |
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With no person on the sled to slow it down, the dogs bolted. |
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We pulled the sled out of the snow and Steve rode it out of there. |
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She made the team as a brakeman, a person who helps push the sled and then, on the way down the hill, helps balance it to keep it from hitting the walls. |
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After we finished the sled tow, we slalomed our way around the central Bransfield Basin dodging icebergs, bergy bits, brash ice and some healthy pack ice. |
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It had taken 13 years, 250 whole-vehicle crash tests, 2,500 sled tests and seven million vehicle kilometres to develop a sensor that set off an airbag in 30 milliseconds. |
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If you prefer a solo challenge, consider racing a dog sled over 1,100 miles of Alaskan wasteland on the Iditarod trail between Anchorage and Nome. |
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Our troubled twosome hitch a dog sled to help their newfound friend retrieve his gold, all the while trying to evade a cavalcade of casino crooks. |
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When Buck wins sixteen hundred dollars for his beloved friend after pulling the dog sled laden with one thousand pounds of flour, the pace of life changes. |
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Among the Polar Eskimo of the Thule District, for example, the dog sled was the most important means of transportation, used up to ten months of the year. |
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The next morning found me at the wheel, so to speak, of my dog sled. |
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Visitors can ride a dog sled on the ice path and experience first-hand this means of transport that is commonly used during the winters of Northeast China. |
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His sled is fast, and hes now starting to be more aggressive, and using the curves to his advantage to help slingshot him and pick up speed. |
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Somehow no matter how big the opening is, your sled has a homing device for the tree. |
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I usually run down the long set of steps at our house and jump on the sled he pulls behind him. |
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This virtual walk around is an animated movie realized with the help of a camera positioned to follow a precise path along a track or sled trail. |
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Each stick has a pick at one end, for moving the sled and a blade at the other end to handle the puck. |
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At the bottom the glühwein was flowing freely and the postilion of a horse-drawn sled blew his curly bugle to part the crowds. |
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Charlie appeared in the woodlot the next morning, bearing his own saw and pulling a sled behind his tractor. |
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Strong as they are, they move slowly, carrying packs and each pulling a small sled or polk, which enables them to transport a great deal. |
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Chris and Mike Moffat suited up for the lone men's doubles sled, and finished a solid 10th. |
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And, unseasonable warm temperatures presented a challenge to those in the grueling Yukon Quest sled dog race. |
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Head and spinal injuries happen more often if people sled headfirst or are lying on their backs. |
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While tobogganing, Adam's sled hit some exposed ice and careened off the main tobogganing path onto more ice. |
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If you lose control, roll off sideways and do not try to stop the toboggan or sled using hands or feet. |
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When the luger flew off the sled, viewers heard a clang, which was presumably the sound of the luger's helmet hitting the post. |
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Tobogganing, the sport of sliding down snow-covered slopes and artificial-ice-covered chutes on a runnerless sled called a toboggan. |
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To be more in control, choose a sled or toboggan that you can easily navigate. |
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In April 1868, a whaler passed by Nuvujen on a dog sled trip and observed that the Scottish station was now in ruins. |
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Ride through deep snowy forest, drive your dog sled across frozen lakes or trudge through winter wonderland with snow shoes. |
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Taking a running start, we bellyflopped onto the sled and went down head first, hopefully catching a few dips and flying over them, becoming temporarily airborne. |
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In deep water, cable-laying ships drag a sled along the bottom to dig a trough in which to lay the cable. |
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The driver controls the sled with his hands and fingers, using rings that are attached to a steering mechanism by ropes. |
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So the little boy waited while the mother, you know, took out the bags and put them on the sled. |
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Description: We see a chief surveyor and a cook, with a team of dogs ready to pull the sled. |
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One of them was of a person putting another woman on a sled and into the oven. |
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Bird bones made excellent needles, and antlers became fish hooks or brakes for a dog sled. |
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This module comes pre-assembled and attached to a sled that is installed inside the HSPS housing. |
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The general public may use the Skateway on foot, on sled and, of course, on skates when the Skateway is open. |
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Siberian Huskies are a strong graceful and energetic sled dog. |
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Release the slip knot which has kept the sled anchored to a tree, and the adrenaline rush is as good as you'd get flooring the accelerator in a Ferrari. |
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We could not stop thinking of all the supplies on the other sled, warm caribou skins, a snow knife for making an igloo, fuel for the stove, and other survival gear. |
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At that point, rack the sled and move on to the next exercise. |
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They yapped and pulled at their leads with such energy that Winkelmann insisted we climb back into the sled, pronto. |
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After he'd leashed the huskies up to the sled, Winkelmann deftly zipped me into a tarp-like blanket. |
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Being the smallest person among us, I had the first seat on the sled, the one closest to the dogs. |
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At this point Zack began to deliberately bail out of the sled, half to three-quarters of the way down the hill, pitching himself out and lying immobile in the snow. |
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He still makes traditional cow bands, used by farmers for tethering cattle and other farm jobs, out of Egyptian flax on an old-fashioned rope-making sled and top. |
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The first surface crossing of the ocean was led by Wally Herbert in 1969, in a dog sled expedition from Alaska to Svalbard, with air support. |
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A toboggan, a sled, snowshoes and skates are used in winter. |
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No person shall, within a park, coast or slide upon any toboggan or sled along or across a highway or public place that has not been set aside by the superintendent for coasting or sliding. |
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There will be a snow kingdom, an indoor playground, sled runs, children's entertainers, snow and ice sculpting, outdoor skating and numerous concerts, to name a few. |
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Korean Air will invest W10 billion to construct a cutting-edge sled for the national bobsledding team. |
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Rasmussen and two Greenland Inuit travelled from the Atlantic to the Pacific over the course of 16 months via dog sled. |
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Saenz set an orange plastic sled at the top of a handicapped access ramp. |
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Forced to abandon ship, Shackleton and his crew were set adrift on the floes. The men survived on a diet of seals, penguins and their own sled dogs. |
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Terrestrial locomotion is easier for phocids on ice, as they can sled along. |
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The same sled must be used in all rounds of the competition. |
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Whereas HOTOL would have launched from a rocket sled, to save weight, Skylon uses a conventional retractable undercarriage. |
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Up on snowier grounds, we take turns in a traditional sled covered with reindeer skin. |
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He had slipped off his sled twice, but stopped it from sliding away. |
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The sled dogs' barking is speculated to have sounded enough like seal calls to trigger the killer whale's hunting curiosity. |
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Notice a worker starting to load another sled. |
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Long bearskin mitts are favoured when working with snow, especially when building an iglu or when icing sled runners in springtime because, as with sealskin, the hair does not shed when damp. |
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Indulging in one of the family's favorite pastimes, riding a tea tray like a sled down a stairwell, he strikes his knee on the newel post and begins to bleed internally. |
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Highlights include ice sculptures, giant snow slide, skating, horse-drawn wagon rides, dog sled rides, ice maze, lumberjack show, midway, and so much more. |
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The sled flipped over twice, dragging him for twenty yards. |
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Whether your specialty is speed and horsepower, plowing through the deep powder or taming mountains, or whether you're looking for a comfortable sled you can take long-distance, Arctic Cat has what you need. |
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Paxton Recreation's Winter Carniva l Sledding, ice skating, bonfire, s'mores, chili contest, sled decorating contest, food, warm cider, and more. |
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We have our fair share of local and national competitions, as well as world championships-from curling to dog sled racing, downhill skiing and luge, and snowmobile drag races on the frozen surfaces of local lakes. |
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A luge slider lying on a sled streaks down a twisting and turning icy track so fast he looks like a blur. |
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In 1909 an American explorer, Robert Peary, reached the North Pole by journeying by sled with 50 Eskimos from Ellesmere Island, northwest of Greenland. |
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Alaskan Malamutes were originally bred as sled dogs for work in the Arctic, but are now popular as family pets. |
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The donation will help Alaskan sled dog owners feed their dogs that were going hungry due to the bad year of salmon fishing. |
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I know my technique is not the best, but the way that I push the sled has changed people's opinions that maybe there is more than one way to push the sled. |
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The current understanding of the nutritional needs of hunting dogs is based primarily on nutritional studies conducted with racing Greyhounds, endurance sled dogs, or dogs exercising on treadmills in the laboratory setting. |
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Skijöring races have been added to many dog sled racing venues but the new sport is quickly becoming a popular recreational activity for the whole family. |
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And we have been in contact with Greenland and they've indicated to us that they would help us with a pure sled dog that they have in their community, because the dogs we have in the north are mixed. |
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Growing up in the United Kingdom, Lidia Dale-Mesaros had always dreamed of owning a team of sled dogs in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. |
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In the case of rear-facing restraints, it is permitted to use a light-weight masking tape to connect the dummy's head to the 100 mm bar or the back of the restraint during the sled acceleration. |
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The NCC instituted new programming elements this year which included dog sled activities and interpretation of the National Aboriginal Veterans monument. |
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Meanwhile, most of the sled dogs on the mushers' teams are Siberian huskies. |
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Throughout much of the winter, the sled or the cutter was the vehicle of choice. Emily and Joseph had a cutter, for traveling in style in snow. |
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Anouk was descended from a long, proud line of sled dogs. |
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Faye, who until recently had 30 sled dogs and runs a popular website northernwolf. |
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He saw the shadows, the wolves, rush together, quick and avid, as the wagon with sled runners disappeared into the distance — forever, for neither he nor his father saw Aanakwad again. |
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He sets off to find them in his sled, a magic spell enabling it to fly, and meets Simon on his travels, a little boy who will be of a great use to him. |
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Alaskan Malamutes have become popular as family pets, but they were originally bred as sled dogs for work in the Arctic. |
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Female Iditarod dog sled racer DeeDee Jonrowe will be the guest speaker at Tuesday's EIA Inspirational and Awards BreakFast. |
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On March 6, that cry will send more than a thousand sled dogs running as this year's Iditarod begins. |
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The nurses go on to describe the fear with which they walked about in their community where half-starved sled dogs threatened, and sometimes succeeded, to attack adults and children without warning. |
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I met them when they were 13 years old, when my husband and I first moved to the USA and bought our first sled dog. |
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Hauling up the lumpy sled wasn't an issue, but the EEL's buoyancy kept getting it jammed between ice blocks or left high and dry all around the stern. |
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Two men ride their luge sled down the bobsleigh track. |
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A Denali expedition typically lasts three weeks and, since there are no porters or mules, climbers must backpack more than 60 pounds of equipment, fuel and food, in addition to dragging a sled of up to 60 pounds. |
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When she comes snout-to-snout with real sled dogs, she realizes she likes her own life. |
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The same study found similar effects in Arctic foxes and Greenland sled dogs. |
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Next spring he went by sled to the Indigirka, built a koch and sailed to the Kolyma. |
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All types of sled dogs will be participating, including Siberian Huskies, Malamutes and Samoyeds. |
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Considering it's almost spitting distance from the tow sled, it's odd not to hear the regular thump of the air pistons resonating through the seismic lab. |
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In the end the truck won, although the sled overtook them at one point while they were crossing the first of two fields of ice boulders. |
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With premium upgrades added to an already stellar sled, the 2011 Yamaha RS Venture GT shows off with high tech dual-clicker GYTR shocks up front and an aluminum-bodied 36mm high pressure gas-charged shock in the rear. |
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Perhaps this poet was influenced by the vast distances, or the crackling sound of ice at night, or the baying of the sled dogs, or maybe even the almost silent swoosh of the snowy owl. |
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I half-expected to see an Eskimo in a huskie-driven sled whiz by. |
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Scarves should be tucked inside a coat or not worn at all since the scarf could get tangled under the sled and pull the sledder off or accidently choke him or her. |
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Species such as walruses, Arctic foxes, sled dogs, muskoxen, lemmings, Arctic terns, Ross's gulls, belugas, hawks, squirrels are splendidly photographed. |
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After writing a story on sled dogs, I learned about skijoring with dogs. |
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During the voyage, the crew spots a dog sled driven by a gigantic figure. |
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With quick presence of mind, Ootah grasped the rear upstander of the sled, which had begun to slide to and fro, and planted his harpoon in the ice. |
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That was the lesson recently imparted to Charlton Middle School sixth-graders when local teen musher Bailey Vitello visited to share his story, his sled dogs and a ride. |
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George Kennan, an American working on the Western Union Telegraph Expedition in the late 1860s, found that dog sled travel on the lower Anadyr was limited by lack of firewood. |
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Mr. Coyote states that on December 13 th he received of Defendant via parcel post one Acme Rocket Sled. |
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Jeff King battled through blowing snow and poor visibility to earn his third victory in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Alaska. |
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This pictorial of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race shows participants and dogs and landscapes along the way, in order of the race route from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska. |
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