The following is copied from Sled Dog Central, hope this is okay to copy it. I did email the young gal after reading this. She said it was quite frightening. But sounds like she used very good judgment in handling the situation. She was in the U.P. running her team.
Posted - 01/02/2007 : 08:50:56 AM
Yesterday afternoon i went out with a 7 dog team at my cabin in the U.P. It was sunny and we were going along fast and i thought what a perfect day. But i noticed some huge dog prints in the trail and my sister and my mom were a few miles behind me and the prints were not coming from my dogs, and my sister and i broke the trail just a few minutes before so i knew they were fresh. Then i looked up and there was an all black wolf trotting in front of us about 80 feet. The dogs didn't see it yet so i stopped my team to let it get off of the trail. Then we continued on our way and we went around a corner and it was standing about 60 feet in front of us just starring at us. So then the dogs saw it and I tried to hold the dogs back with all my might but i was on the brake and they still were way too strong. Then the wolf finally jumped off of the trail and it ran into the woods and i thought ok were fine, we will just finish our run and we will be fine. So we went down a huge hill and we took a hard left turn and there were 5 more wolves standing in the trail 50 feet in front of us!!! They just stood there and my dogs were going crazy and I tried to get my snowhook into the ground but they kept pulling it out. It took me about 5 tries to get it in the ground good. And i got off of my sled and grabbed my leaders and turned them around but of course the wouldn't stay lined out in the opposite direction of the wolves so I stood with my leaders and pulled on the gang line with all my might and the snow hook popped up and I started running with my leaders and then as they pulled the sled by me i grabbed it and we were out of there. The wolves never moved an inch. As i went up that huge hill again i ran into my sister who was skijouring with 2 dogs and i was waving my arms yelling at her to turn around and we got her turned around and we ran into my mom about 2 miles later and told her to turn around and we made it back with ripped jeans, 1 tore harrness and 1 falty clip on a neckline. But I wonder what would have happened if my team didn't stop and we ran into them what would have happened??? I have been dogsledding for 15 1/2 years which is my whole life and i have never experienced anything like that before. But has it happened to anyone else?? What else could i have done??Thanks,Mush On
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