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RACE RESULTS

2008

BEARGREASE 150 CHAMPION

MID-NIGHT RUN CHAMPION

APOSTLE INLANDS 4TH PLACE

RED RIVER DOG DERBY CHAMPION

RED RIVER DOG DERBY BEST KEPT TEAM AWARD

2007

MID-NIGHT RUN CHAMPION

APOSTLE INLANDS 4TH PLACE

2006

BEARGREASE 150 2nd PLACE

BEARGREASE BEST KEPT TEAM AWARD

BEARGREASE 150 4th PLACE

MID-NIGHT RUN 2ND PLACE

MID-NIGHT RUN 12TH PLACE

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Team Galloway

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WE HATE GLOBAL WARMING

• It does not rain!
• A big fire may burn all our houses down!
• It causes bad weather!
• We get extra hot and have to hide in the shade!
• We catch new viruses from Florida!
• It makes our masters grumpy!
• We may never be able to run to the north pole - only doggy paddle

THE TEAM_GALLOWAY MISSION

To be a responsible, positive, competent, and competitive team representing the best of Minnesota mushing.

To have the team finish each race healthy, happy, and wanting to continue.

To challenge ourselves to continue in the face of difficulty and in spite of hardship.

To share the love of mushing and the bond formed between human and animal to children of all ages.

To contribute back to our community.

MINNESOTA SLED DOG HISTORY

Sled dog activities, as recreation and friendly competition, may have existed for almost as long as the relationship between dogs and humans, in the regions where snow was a seasonal probability. The first written account of a race was an informal challenge between travelers on the route from Winnipeg to St. Paul in the 1850's. In 1886, the first Saint Paul Winter Carnival featured sled dog races and ski competitions to glorify the attractions of winter in Minnesota. Sled dog races have been part of the Winter Carnival to the present day. The most memorable event was the 1917 race from Winnipeg to Saint Paul, on which a recent Walt Disney movie (Iron Will) was loosely based. In reality the race that year was won by Albert Campbell, a Metis from The Pas, Manitoba followed by his brother in second place.
*Taken from IFSS "mushing a breif history of the sport."

MONSTER MUSH

Running at night is scary and somewhat dangerous. But also exciting and a lot of fun. We run at night for three primary reasons. If it is too warm during the day, during hunting season or if it is a special occasion such as Halloween, Winter Solstice, New Years Eve and of course, our annual date, on Valentines Day.

The dogs can’t run above 50 degrees without risking overheating. We use the 100 point rule—add up the temperature and the humidity—if it is 100 or less we can run. Even if the temps are near 50, we need to stop often and water the dogs so they will cool down. So during the early part of fall we often need to run at night when it is cooler.
We live in a pretty remote area, which means lots of woods, which also means there are lots of hunters out during deer season. We want to respect their time in the woods and also not risk being mistaken for a deer! So that means running at night when hunting does not take place.
Nothing is more fun than running at night on some special occasion such as Halloween —especially if the moon or Northern Lights are out. This year we are planning a camp out during the Halloween weekend, inviting some friends of ours to come along, and are going to call the event “The Monster Mush!” I of course plan on wearing my Dracula teeth!

For safety sake we train the dogs to stay on the right side of the road/ trail at all times, the leaders wear flashing red lights and we installed reflective signs to our ATV’s to warn vehicles coming up from behind.

BACK PACKING WITH HANK

This September August, Hank, and I went on a 9 day backpacking trip in the Cloud Peak Wilderness Area. CPWA is located in the Big Horn Mountain Range in central Wyoming.
























We spents our days hiking, fly fishing, sleeping, we climbed Cloud Peak and up to lower and upper Crater lakes.
























Hank became an excellent mountain dog carrying his own food and personal items.
























Hank really enjoyed the hike up Cloud Peak. Eespecially when he saw the dead Elk.(Hank was the first to smell it)

THE TEMPS. ARE DROPPING & IT'S TIME TO START TRAINING

It’s finally cold enough to start seriously training the team! This fall we have started out with 27 dogs as the main team. Our oldest dog is Helen, now 7 years old. On the opposite end we have 10 yearlings this year, the biggest group of young dogs to ever train with the main crew since we began raising and running our own dogs. We feel that this is testament to our breeding program which has improved over the years as we have become more knowledgeable about the type of dog we are looking for and also buying proven dogs specifically for breeding from championship kennels.

We have started by running (w/ the dogs pulling ATV’s) 3 miles with 2 teams of 13 dogs each. Every week we are increasing the mileage by 20% until we have enough snow to be on sleds (usually by December.) Right now we are training on the gravel roads of our neighborhood, the surrounding fields and a few of the forest trails. Our goal is to have the team knowing how to pull steady and hard for a consistent run at about 10 miles an hour. They usually pull in gear—kind of like weight training, and at times we will put the ATV in neutral or give them gas to “loosen them up” and build in some speed training.

The hope is by the time we do make it to sleds we will still have 21 dogs ready to continuing the second phase of training. We plan to run 2 teams at the shorter races giving the younger guys a taste of race experience. It should be pretty exciting to see 2 screaming to go dog teams launching off the same truck!

Primarily fall is a time of “norming and forming” - building stronger bonds with the younger members of the team, training in new leaders and just having fun!

LET'S HUNT SOME ORC!

If you are a fan of Lord of the Rings you might remember a line in the movies that Aragorn, when realizing his friends have been captured, says: “Lets Hunt Some Orc!” So whenever I think there is another musher ahead I yell out this line and when Helen & Trot are in the team...oh we do! Helen’s ears will go up and as soon as she sees the competitor she begins to pound against her harness. Trot will begin to bark when we are still at quite a distance
away, keeping it up as we pass and for at least 5 miles afterwards. All the while running as hard as he can. Definitely leader material!