5 Apr 2024

The Write-up I’ve Been Putting Off

I’m glad I kept an audible record of my Iditarod. I revisit it maybe once or twice a year, and it seems a million miles away. I’ve been slowly trying to put it up in podcast form, but you maybe … Read More
27 Feb 2024

The Importance of Being a Buddy

When we set up ATAO, I wanted to have a program where people could do a “light” sponsorship of the dogs. I knew that the dogs– their individual selves– were really the most interesting part to many mushing followers, and … Read More
21 Mar 2021

Success

In the summer of the year 2000, I sat nervously in the passenger seat of Martin Buser’s dog truck. The boxes in the back were new, and my brother and Martin’s two sons wanted to ride in the boxes. Test … Read More
12 Feb 2021

Quest Detour

It’s been a wild year. In more ways than one. Here at ATAO it’s been a year of culminations- and we’re almost to the highest peak of all. Iditarod is around the corner like- REALLY around the corner. We’re in … Read More
19 Dec 2020

Winter, Sam, and RACING!

It’s always a wild ride here at ATAO– now is far from the exception. If anything it’s the rule. Does that make sense? I think it does. I’ve been up late prepping for something exciting… The very first RACE of … Read More
2 Jan 2020

Obstacles and Goals

We’ve had a hell of a season so far. Some of it great, some of it not so great. I know it’s old news, but it does still boggle me how much of a wrench that porcupine threw in things. … Read More
22 Oct 2019

Emmy

Last night, a quiet little miracle happened. Maybe miracle is too strong– but for those little moments of success that seemed far off or impossible, even… miracle is the closest to what it feels like. Two things happened yesterday that … Read More
4 Oct 2019

Quilliam

Here’s a follow up to the misadventures of the last few days. Yesterday, the ten remaining dogs who were on the Sept 30th team went to the vet. Huge shout out to North Pole Veterinary Hospital for being thorough and … Read More
1 Oct 2019

Quills

Mushing is always an adventure. Sometimes it is the kind of adventure you’d prefer not to have.   Today started off on sort of the wrong foot anyway when Shawn called me with a flat tire and a ticking clock … Read More
26 Sep 2019

Training and Braining

This fall is the start of our third season mushing here in Two Rivers as ATAO kennel. Around this time in our first season, we had 5-6 dogs ahead of the four-wheeler. Now we have 15 dogs (including 4 of … Read More

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