Why do the dogs wear boots on their feet?

We put cloth (cordura) boots on the dogs feet to help protect the webbing between their toes from getting what musher's call “fissures” or splits in their skin caused by ice crystals of cold fresh snowfall. Also the boots protects the dogs feet from getting snowballs forming in the hair and from ice or frozen gravel on the trails that we run on. The dogs generally like their booties...once we had a dog (Song) who liked booties so much he ate 20 boots during a race! We know this because we counted them in his poop afterwards.

2009 RACE SCHEDUAL

Follow along as our athlete's compete for glory and doggy snacks

• Beargrease 150 January 25-26, 2009

• Mid-Night Run February 20-21, 2009

• Red River Dog Derby March 7-8, 2009

TEAM GALLOWAY SEEKS SPONSERSHIP

This racing season was another record year for Team Galloway placing well in the Beargrease 150, Mid-Night run and the Red River Dog Derby. Don't miss out on an opportunity to be a part of Team Galloway for the 2009-2010 racing season.

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Team Galloway

5180 Farmers Road

Makinen, MN 55768.

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Trail is great for racers, By John Pepin

WETMORE — In an exciting finish, Minnesota’s Don Galloway won the Midnight Run Saturday for the second year in a row.Spectators cheered as the frost-covered faces of Galloway’s orange-booted lead dogs could be seen rounding a corner through the cold early morning darkness in Wetmore.With temperatures sunk to near 10 degrees below zero, Galloway of Makenin, Minn., crossed under the wooden arch and over the blaze orange finish line painted in the snow at 7:24 a.m.“It’s great,” Galloway said. “I won last year so it’s fun to come back and be able to retain the title.”The mushers race 49 miles to a layover at Deerton in Alger County before continuing on another 42 miles to the Wetmore finish line, located just south of M-28 about four miles east of Munising.Galloway said his eight-dog team performed well. Temperatures were cold and the trail was hard and fast. There were a couple of icy hills near Marquette, but the rest of the trail was good, he said.“The dogs were just awesome, and they’re what it’s all about,” Galloway said. “They were dog-o-mite.”

Galloway wins John Beargrease mid-distance sled dog race

Here is a nice article by Andy Greder of the Duluth News Tribune published Tuesday, January 29, 2008. It's a great article. That got national press.

BEARGREASE NEWS CLIP

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.