Quest 300 Prep - Food Drops and Training

With the Yukon Quest 300 being two weeks away things have been very busy for Paige, team squid and the Handler (Cody). Paige spent countless hours cutting big blocks of meat up for the dogs during the race. Shown at left. The dogs get a mix of chicken, chicken skins, beef, liver, salmon, whitefish, tripe, salmon oil, and kibble.

All of this meat is bagged up and sent off to the different checkpoints.

During the drop bag preparation the dogs still have to be run to keep physically fit. we run the dogs to Minto Flats and Nenana area from our house. Sometimes we set up our wall tent and get warm while resting the dogs on these runs. Paige is seen warming by the woodstove below.

Once the drop bags containing, dog food, Paige food and other spare supples were finished they were dropped off to be sent ahead of race to the checkpoints.

Now that the drop bags were finished. Paige is focusing on the dogs. Sunday we took the dogs to the white mountains for an 80 mile run with a break in the middle at Cache Mountain cabin. The following are a few pictures and video from that trip.

Stay tuned for more information the Yukon Quest 300 starting of February 6th....

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Squid Acres Crew