Seeing skijoring randomly at Kincaid Park can blow your mind. A dog can pull you on your skis faster than you believed possible. The feeling is much like dog mushing, but much easier to get into because you don’t need an entire team. Your own pet may be able to do it, if you both learn how. In the first half of this next show we’ll talk about skijoring, how it is done, and what it takes to start. In the second half, we’ll focus on the subject of dogs and winter, with information the rest of us need about keeping pets healthy in the cold, including tips for taking your dog on winter outdoor activities. Dog lovers should definitely stay tuned for the next show.
HOST: Charles Wohlforth
GUESTS:
- Chuck Pratt – race organizer and member of Anchorage Skijor Club
- Kim Wells – musher, trainer and member of Anchorage Skijor Club
- Metis Riley – Co-founder of Straw for Dogs and a dog trainer
LINKS:
- Straw For Dogs promotes quality care taking and provides free and pay-as-you-can supplies and resources for pets outdoors.
- Anchorage Skijor Club
- Alaska Skijor and Pulk Association
- Beginning skijor clinics
- All about skijoring from SkijorUSA
- Links to all sorts of great resources for skijoring
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BROADCAST: Thursday, February 23, 2017. 2:00 pm – 3:00 p.m. AKT
REPEAT BROADCAST: Thursday, March 02, 2017. 8:00 – 9:00 p.m. AKT
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Eric Bork, or you can just call him “Bork” because everybody else does, is the FM Operations Manager for KSKA-FM. He oversees the day-to-day operations of the FM broadcast. He produces and edits episodes of Outdoor Explorer, the Alaska-focused outdoors program. He also maintains the web posts for that show. You may have heard him filling in for Morning Edition or hosting All Things Considered and can still find him operating the soundboard for any of the live broadcast programs.
After escaping the Detroit area when he was 18, Bork made it up to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, where he earned a degree in Communications/Radio Broadcasting from Northern Michigan University. He spent time managing the college radio station, working for the local NPR affiliate, and then in top 40 radio in Michigan before coming to Alaska to work his first few summers. After then moving to Chicago, it only took five years to convince him to move back to Alaska in 2010. When not involved in great radio programming he’s probably riding a bicycle, thinking about riding bicycles, dreaming about bikes, reading a book, or planning the next place he’ll travel to. Only two continents left to conquer!
