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Dog Sledding Fairbanks. Adventure Awaits You.

A Canine Cooperative

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It started as a dream to live simply and sustainably, surrounded by wilderness, friends, and most importantly sled dogs.

With the purchase of a 40-acre parcel of forgotten land, our dream became reality.  

 Off-grid living isn't easy--No running water, no electricity, no cable television.  But for a group of mushing fanatics and the help of sled dogs, mushing becomes not only our career, it's our lifestyle. We haul firewood to heat our homes, skid logs to build our cabins, and carry drinking water from the river with our sled dogs. Generating electricity running off generators, solar panels & battery banks.  

We strive to live a sustainable lifestyle--We hunt, fish, and utilize every scrap of the animal's body that we harvest from the land.  We live our life outdoors.

 

A GLIMPSE @ OUR DAILY LIFE...

Our Story
Dried Salmon
Dried Salmon

Salmon hung in the fall, freeze dry over the winter and are fed to the dogs all summer long.

Smoked Salmon Filets
Smoked Salmon Filets

Some filets are smoked whole, then vacuum sealed and stored for the winter.

Smoked Salmon Strips
Smoked Salmon Strips

A perfect musher’s treat for the trail.

Salmon Cookpot
Salmon Cookpot

Salmon are either hung to dry and cut into small frozen trail snacks for the dogs, or cooked as a meal with rice in a cook pot.

Morels
Morels

Wildfires are very common in Alaska’s long hot summers. Fireweed isn’t the only thing that follows fire and Alaskans rush to burn sites the following year to hunt and gather tasty morels.

Alpine Blueberry
Alpine Blueberry

Alaska is known for our berries. Blueberries, low-bush & high-bush cranberries, crow berries, raspberries, cloud berries and salmon berries are amongst our favorites.

Moose
Moose

One bull moose is enough to feed four people through the winter.

Racks of Ribs
Racks of Ribs

Ribs and hooves of ungulates make perfect chew toys for the dogs, once they are cooked down to eliminate any parasites.  They also keep the dogs teeth clean and tartar free! 

Game
Game

Most of our meat comes from moose, caribou, or Dall sheep rather than the grocery store.  Hides we stretch and used to keep warm.

Willow Ptarmigan
Willow Ptarmigan

Alaska's state bird, the Arctic Grouse, are small but delicious.

Spruce Grouse
Spruce Grouse

A quick and easy target on our local trails.

Caribou
Caribou

Caribou herds wander through the valleys of the numerous mountain ranges we explore.

Waste Not Want Not
Waste Not Want Not

Nothing is wasted when it comes to the game we hunt.  By boiling down the bones and cartilage, we make a great bone broth for the dogs water, enriched with numerous vitamins and minerals.

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