happy dogs from bennys husky kennel

Happy Dogs from Benny's Husky Kennel

N E W S

09.03.2010
Only 3d 23h 44min left to the start.
Here some impressions over the last two days .... a lot of new snow and
heavy winds ... yesterday Alta Airport closed. Same some
mountain-passes.
Just preparing the food-bags for the checkpoints.

03.03.2010
Morning: Snow, more snow, and more snow ...
10:00am: Sun is coming, starting the team - since a long, long time -
without Pauline, now Lalaby and Stormy had to do the lead.
After 30km Eki in lead ... speeded up the whole bunch

02.03.2010
Snow .... much snow ..... 52km ... very slow

28.02.2010
Jergul - Detsika
After a cold night in the truck (-32°C) woke up at 07:30am. Dogs
prepared and started at -31°C .... then the temp dropped down .... heck
it was cold .... reached Joatka after 5 hrs and a bit .... good running
team .... snacked for 10min .... team wanted to go ..... good sign ....
reached Detsika after 9hrs ..... missed some turns before Detsika and
"visited" some valleys nearby .... a lot of hard work (up and down) for the
dogs and they all did really well .... reached Detsika at 1900pm.... fed
the dogs and then went to bed .... good training day.
No pictures -- too cold for the cam .... and my fingers ... used overmitts
the whole way

27.02.2010
Heated up, only -12°C ... BUT: Really snowstorming down in our valley
.... must be heavy up on the tops ... just waiting for slowing down winds

26.02.2010
Again to Suolovuopmi, but farther then short before Maze .... great
working team, only 13, Lalaby needed a break ...
Weather clouded, sometimes sunny .... but again it was cold up in the
mountains ...

25.02.2010
Good run over to Suolovuopmi ..... 3:35hrs ..... all 14 dogs fit

24.02.2010
Training stopped for five days. Today I have an appointment at doctors
office (chiropractic). Cross your fingers that it will work.
Stefan and Diana have to take care of the doggies ...

20.02.2010
Worst case for the musher - lumbago ...
Just 13 dogs lined out, and then ....

19.02.2010
52,6km .... great run

18.02.2010
52,6km in -42°C .... f..ck it was cold ....

16.02.2010
10 hrs slept well .... all happy ... -15°C
First trainingsrun, direction Kautokeino
Scouted out with some musher-neighbours the trail down to Alta River
and then up to Detsika ... Joatka ...
17:00 -22°C, temp still dropping ...

15.02.2010
3000km farther north, 4 days on the road, every night 8 to 10hrs sleep,
comfortable journey ...
We just safely arrived Alta .... all dogs and humans cheerful, truck in
one piece ... (;>)
Obtained our well heated stuga .... fed the doggies ... fed ourselves ...
sleeeeep

10.01.2010

09.01.2010

03.01.2010

01.01.2010 - Happy new year !!
Starts with more snow ... and our new-year-run

31.12.2009 - Sylvester
SNOW - SNOW

And the sylvester-run

21.12.2009

20.12.2009

26.10.2009

01.10.2009

01.08.2009
Opening of Finnmarkslöpet-Registration.

31.07.2009

25.07.2009
The dogbox is repaired after the horrible crash last march. Thank god
again that we all are alive ...

17.07.2009
Race-schedule 2009/2010 opened !
Today we got - same like last year - the invitation for the
La Grande Odyssee" (worlds longest and toughest Stage-Race, every
year beginning of january, for 25 of the best mushers of the world)

Now again we have to think about the upcoming season, especially
which races we want to take part.
Maybe one plan can be "La Grande Odyssee" in january and
Finnmarkslöpet in march, or Amundsenrace in late march.

03.07.2009

30.06.2009
Everything goes on smoothly ...

April 2009
A really, really bad and unsuccessfull winter ends with a scratched race
(7 females in heat was too much - we weren't the fastest but the funniest
team in the race), a completely shreddered dog-truck (thanks to
Andreas - you still have to learn what responsibility means) and after
that bad accident see how the Finnmarklöpet-organization doens't help
a foreign musher without truck and shelter for the dogs.
Thanks in that situation goes to Gerhard Hirz and his handler, Don
Lyrek and Fabrizio Lovati with all his handlers, who helped with car,
dogtrailer and human help.
Summary: A good race-organisation shows to you if something goes
wrong, not always good.

24.01.2009
After six month of fight against the cancer, Kira died in the morning in
my arms. She was one of my toughest girls, ran the Finnmarkslöpet and
the Amundsenrace - but again the cancer won. She was only five years
old.
We knew that the time will come, but again deep sadness is in our
hearts.

07.01.2009
Time goes by, here are some news:
Training is on schedule, still with ATV, all dogs are powerfull
  working, temperatures dropped to (last night) -22°C.
Next days we are moving in the Fjell, train some real hills on windy
  trails. And after all on sled ...

   29.10.2008

26.10.2008
Galileo in his agility-parcours (happy dogs are allrounder)

25.10.2008
We are welcoming our new second handler Verena.

20.10.2008
without words ...

17.10.2008
not only happy dogs -- happy girls too

15.10.2008
Cold nights, hot doghouses ... or my leaders are lesbians

23.09.2008
I'm never alone ...

22.09.2008
Startorder for Finnmarkslöpet: We are starting with No.4 !!
Thats really good news; keep in mind the same number as in last
Amundsenrace, and this was a really good running race.

14.09.2008
First minus in the night: (and Lalaby and Stormy are moving together)

01.09.2008
New: Take over a dog-sponsor-ship and be a part of our team.

29.08.2008
Main goal 2009: Finnmarkslöpet 1000.

20.04.2008
Winter is nearly over - and we are the one and only german kennel
who finished Finnmarkslöpet and Amundsenrace.
A really successfull winter 2008 !!
So now we have the qualification for the Quest and Iditarod.

The last winter ...