The aspect of the race I don't enjoy is driving the dogs when they are tired, or just waking up. Questions asked, and answered by last year's featured musher Trevor Braun. This is my fourth winter mushing dogs. I borrowed seventeen dogs from Frank Turner and two from Bob Raymond. I am training a total of twenty-one dogs.
All mushers enjoy mushing.
You have to enjoy it. There is so much work and responsibility to having dogs that you have to enjoy it. Mushing is a lifestyle and I believe everyone has to enjoy life - whatever they do. Canadian Eskimo and Greenland Eskimo dogs handle cold weather the best. As far as performing in race conditions, cold is a factor that you have to deal with.