Category Archives: Kearney Dog Sled Races
Sprint Race Registration – Raven’s Adventures
Today’s feature musher is Gail from Ravens Adventures. Gail travels from the Cochrane, Ontario area to attend the Kearney Dog Sled Races and enter the Sprint Race. Above photo is Kearney 2013, photo by Hughes Photography Question & Answer How many years have you been running dogs? Ten plus years Tell us about your […]
Ski-joring at the Kearney Dog Sled Races
The Kearney Dog Sled Races offer several different race categories for participating mushers… and ski-jorers. Not only are there Sprint Races (the 4 and 6 dog sprint races), the two day 10 Dog Stage Race and even a fun race for junior mushers with the Kid and Mutt races but there’s also […]
Online Registration
Although registration for the Kearney Dog Sled Races have been open since the fall, with the launch of our new website we now offer online registration to make the process simple. Just visit our website and navigate to the Registration tab, under there you will find a Musher Registration page along with […]
2015 Race Registration Update
Please note changes in our Race Registration and Bib/Seeding Draw Updated December 2014 Friday 6-8 pm – Registration is Open for 4 dog, 6 dog, ski-joring and Stage Races. Friday 8 pm Seeding for 4-Dog, 6-Dog and Ski-joring classes – the Race Marshall will determine the mushers bib numbers for Saturday Races based […]
Kearney Dog Sled Races New Website
Just in time for a new year we have a new Website! Launched December 31st 2014 The Kearney Dog Sled committee along with partnership funding from our local Regional Tourism Organization, Explorers Edge worked with a local web designer to bring a new online experience to visitors for the 2015 […]
My winter home is an Igloo
THE GRAND SHELTERS ICEBOX® The ICEBOX® igloo construction tool is used for igloo building by creating sequential blocks in place. You set the clamps on the form then fill it while packing. after you have filled it you unclamp it and slide it to the next position. A pole […]
Barking Up the Right Tree
21st annual Kearney Dog Sled Races Feb 7 & 8th 2015 Kearney, Ontario, December 18, 2014 – As many as 75 dog sled teams will compete in and around Kearney at the 21st Anniversary Dog Sled Races on Saturday February 7th and Sunday February 8th in Ontario’s biggest annual dog sled […]
New Stage Race for 2015
10 Dog, 2 Day Stage Race Announced September 27, 2014 The Town of Kearney Sled Dog Races has changed its Mid-Distance Race format for the 2015 season to a Stage Race format. Mushers will be permitted to utilize a 12 dog pool with a maximum 10 dog team size for […]
Kearney Dog Sled Races – Balto
Dog Sled History – Balto Balto (1919 – March 14, 1933) was a Siberian Husky sled dog who led his team on the final leg of the 1925 Great Serum Run to Nome, in which diphtheria antitoxin was transported from Anchorage, Alaska, to Nenana, Alaska, by train and then to Nome by dog sled to […]
Glimpse of years past…
The following are clips from local papers for the early 2000’s…