Dogsledding in Maine
Come experience "mushing" first hand...standing on the runners as you drive your own team of our incredible Alaskan sled dogs...! This is a unique and memorable adventure...a taste of the "Alaskan experience...framed instead against the backdrop of "Katahdin", New England's wildest and snowiest mountain range.
We divide our huskies into small teams and lead day trips into the spectacular Nahmakanta Wilderness, returning each night to your own warm cabin, delicious home-cooked meal and a wood-fired cedar sauna...! After a brief orientation, anyone in reasonably good shape can learn to drive their own team following behind the guide's lead sled.
Alaskan Huskies are incredibly vigorous animals. They are not show dogs...their ancestors were bred in Yukon River villages where the very survival of the native people depended on the strength and endurance of their dogs. Despite their "wolfish" appearance, they are friendly, even-tempered and sociable animals that love attention and interacting with humans and each other. But what they like most is to RUN...and with an energy and enthusiasm that is amazing. No other animal on earth, wild or domestic, can match the power, grace and endurance of the legendary Alaskan Husky..!
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Maine's Most Experienced Mushers
Our sled dogs are our extended family and a very important part of our daily life, year-round. Over the past 20 years, we have traveled 40,000 miles by dogteam in remote wilderness areas of Maine, Canada, and Alaska. We finished in the top ten of the 1995 "Yukon Quest" 1000 mile race and received the "Vets Choice Award" for for the best cared for team. More recently, we have placed 1st in the "Labrador 400" mile event in Canada and are 3-time winners of Maine's "Can-Am 250" race, "The Iditarod of the East".
• Proud Participant in the Can Am International Dog Sled Race
Don and Angel Hibbs • PO Box 544 Millinocket, Maine 04462 (207) 731-8888 • E-mail info@mainedogsledding.com
