Holiday Race Videos

The first video is when all the teams are getting ready for the race. Avery and I were helping hold the dogs on Jeremiah's team. We had to hold the dogs so they wouldnt try to take off before the race began. Their dogs were very eager to run and many of the dogs on Jeremiah's team were young and less experienced. The video is really bumpy because I was holding on to a pair of dogs with one hand and shooting the video with the other. The dogs were going nuts, jumping around everywhere. The woman at the end is the mom of the kids who run the dogs.

The second video is of the start of the race. For some reason when the race started Jessica's dog team veered off to the left instead of going straight ahead on to the river. She got the dogs turned to the right and back on track pretty quickly. Jeremiah's team followed Jessica's team off to the left and you can hear people yelling "Gee, Gee". Gee is the musher command used to get the dogs to tu rn right. Our first experience with dog sled racing was fun and exciting.