stackyFACTSMushers do not dress their pups up for fashion points. Without fabric protecting their paws, snow packs tightly between their warm toes and immediately turns into sharp ice chunks, making every step excruciatingly painful and ruining a perfectly good sled run.
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While you are freezing your toes off in a tent, the dogs happily let themselves get entirely buried by snowdrifts. They essentially use the icy blanket as…
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While Huskies get all the glory for sprinting across the ice, Malamutes are the slow, muscular tractors of the canine world. They were bred explicitly to drag…
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To prevent sharp ice from shredding their paws, the dogs are forced to wear tiny, ridiculous-looking socks. They might look like absolute fools, but it keeps…
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It is essentially a chair attached to long metal runners. Popular in Nordic countries, you stand on one runner and frantically kick the frozen ground with…
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