Well, 2001 is upon us and, once again, so is another racing season. Thanks to the generosity of people, like yourself, because without you none of this could happen.

All of us here are getting ready for what we think will be an exciting year. The dog yard continues to grow. We broke the 60-dog mark in September. With the future always a step in front of us, we can’t lapse for a minute and the dogs are certainly doing their part.

I recently ran “The Copper Basin 300” for the first time and finished in 33^rd place. This race is the toughest 300 miles in Alaska. It’s highly competitive race with a lot of top 20 teams entered. My plan was to show my dogs a good time and without a lot of stress. I took some new dogs to see how they would do.

Winter in Alaska is cold, windy and even wet sometimes. This time of year is one stress at our kennel. The food bill is the highest. There is also the cost of trucking dogs to training and vets, race entry fees, and food drops expenses all combine to exhaust are resources.

Piecing together a competitive team is more challenging every year.  Keeping up with nutrition technology and non-stop training seem to be the focus, So far, the weather has not been perfect but, here in Talkeetna, we are enjoying more snow than most places in Alaska. We have more miles on the dogs than ever before.We’re trying very hard to make sure that our mistakes and mishaps of the past (e.g., broken sleds) do not happen again. So stay tuned and I’ll do my best for you.

Thanks again every one. Especially you.   

Jerome Longo

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