Have you ever worked dogs 🐕 behind a sled 🛷?

Working dogs can be a fairly scary thing to do, but considering my paternal grandmother being Sami I have close relatives that we used to go to in the late winter after Christmas 🎅 to see and have fun with in the snow in the northern forests and mountains. As a ten years old I would work the dogs 🐕 with the sled, and I also learned how to drive a jet ski over the cold winter ground.

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There is an annual race in Alaska called the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. It's "an annual long-distance sled dog race held in Alaska in early March. It travels from Anchorage to Nome. Mushers and a team of between 12 and 16 dogs, of which at least 5 must be on the towline at the finish line,[1] cover the distance in 8–15 days or more."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iditarod_Trail_Sled_Dog_Race

The riders on the sleds are called Mushers, because Mush is the bastardization of the original word "Marche!" that French Trappers used to yell to make their dogs run!