Sunday, July 22, 2012
Visiting Sled Dogs at Denali
Denali National Park is the only national park to have working sled dogs. They use them in the winter to get to outlying areas of this vast two million acre park. Since this is a legally designated Wilderness, there are no mechanized forms of transport allowed -- no snowmobiles, no cars, no airplane landings and no motors. They told us that when the park has a choice between flying a load into a remote location or using the dog teams, they will use the park sled dogs when feasible. These "athletes" as they called the sled dogs when we visited the Iditarod Headquarters in Wasilla, are kept in kennels near the main park visitor's center. They have tours several times a day where you can meet the dogs and see a sled dog demonstration. Here are our pictures from there:
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment