Another week of training, another skunk . . . this time way too up close and personal. Lots of news from Trail Dancer Kennels this week. Gavin takes time to catch everyone up on fall training.

As always, the music that opens and closes this podcast is Hobo Jim singing his famous "Iditarod Trail." This excerpt is freely available from his Web site at: http://www.hobojim.com/recordings.htm We hope you'll check out Hobo Jim's music, as he has many more wonderful songs to share.

If you're interested in learning more about Gavin Baker and Traildancer Kennels, visit traildancer.com.   Enjoy!

It's been two weeks since we've caught up with Gavin. He's been busy with his dogs putting on many miles on the trail. This week he explains how he and his handlers have been camping with the dogs to do back-to-back training runs while simulating race conditions on the trail.

As always, the music that opens and closes this podcast is Hobo Jim singing his famous "Iditarod Trail." This excerpt is freely available from his Web site at: http://www.hobojim.com/recordings.htm We hope you'll check out Hobo Jim's music, as he has many more wonderful songs to share.

If you're interested in learning more about Gavin Baker and Traildancer Kennels, visit traildancer.com.   Enjoy!

This week, Tim phoned Gavin to catch up on Team Trail Dancer Kennels' training. Gavin explained how he's making use of unexpected warm weather for different kinds of training. He talks about everything from harness wear to fitting booties.

As always, the music that opens and closes this podcast is Hobo Jim singing his famous "Iditarod Trail." This excerpt is freely available from his Web site at: http://www.hobojim.com/recordings.htm We hope you'll check out Hobo Jim's music, as he has many more wonderful songs to share.

If you're interested in learning more about Gavin Baker and Traildancer Kennels, visit traildancer.com.   Enjoy!

Gavin and the team had a close encounter of the skunk kind. . . and it was kinda awful for everyone (well the dogs had fun). Always something new on the trail.

As always, the music that opens and closes this podcast is Hobo Jim singing his famous "Iditarod Trail." This excerpt is freely available from his Web site at: http://www.hobojim.com/recordings.htm We hope you'll check out Hobo Jim's music, as he has many more wonderful songs to share.

If you're interested in learning more about Gavin Baker and Traildancer Kennels, visit traildancer.com.   Enjoy!

This podcast provides a quick summary of the training in early October. Things are going well, and the training miles are accumulating as planned.

As always, the music that opens and closes this podcast is Hobo Jim singing his famous "Iditarod Trail." This excerpt is freely available from his Web site at: http://www.hobojim.com/recordings.htm We hope you'll check out Hobo Jim's music, as he has many more wonderful songs to share.

If you're interested in learning more about Gavin Baker and Traildancer Kennels, visit traildancer.com.   Enjoy!

Tim Pychyl here for this podcast. I called Gavin to chat before he got out for a training run tonight. We talked about his goals for early-fall training, the Veterinary visit this weekend, as well as the qualities in his lead dogs.

For this podcast, I used a phone adapter for my digital recorder, which meant that I got a mono recording. I hope it's clear.

As always, the music that opens and closes this podcast is Hobo Jim singing his famous "Iditarod Trail." This excerpt is freely available from his Web site at: http://www.hobojim.com/recordings.htm We hope you'll check out Hobo Jim's music, as he has many more wonderful songs to share.

If you're interested in learning more about Gavin Baker and Traildancer Kennels, visit traildancer.com.   Enjoy!

It's been a busy 2 weeks around Traildancer Kennels with the addition of two new dogs, dog food delivery and training runs. Catch up on the latest with Gavin in this podcast.

The music that opens and closes this podcast is Hobo Jim singing his famous "Iditarod Trail." This excerpt is freely available from his Web site at: http://www.hobojim.com/recordings.htm We hope you'll check out Hobo Jim's music, as he has many more wonderful songs to share.

If you're interested in learning more about Gavin Baker and Traildancer Kennels, visit traildancer.com.   Enjoy!

This is a special broadcast featuring the world champion musher, Lance Mackey. At the invitation of Ray and Janice Erker, Lance traveled down from Alaska to join mushers in Ontario again this year in Bonfield, Ontario. This podcast captures a small part of a very special weekend with Lance. In these introductory remarks, Lance speaks about "Appetite and Attitude" in his approach to long-distance dog sled racing. We know you'll enjoy this podcast.

A special thanks to Ray and Janice Erker for organizing and hosting an incredible event again this year!

The music that opens and closes this podcast is Hobo Jim singing his famous "Iditarod Trail." This excerpt is freely available from his Web site at: http://www.hobojim.com/recordings.htm We hope you'll check out Hobo Jim's music, as he has many more wonderful songs to share.

If you're interested in learning more about Gavin Baker and Traildancer Kennels, visit traildancer.com.   Enjoy!

The early mornings are cool enough now to begin fall training, so we join Gavin on the Sunday morning of Labor Day weekend for a short run. You can find a video of this run on our YouTube site as well.

The music that opens and closes this podcast is Hobo Jim singing his famous "Iditarod Trail." This excerpt is freely available from his Web site at: http://www.hobojim.com/recordings.htm We hope you'll check out Hobo Jim's music, as he has many more wonderful songs to share.

If you're interested in learning more about Gavin Baker and Traildancer Kennels, visit traildancer.com.   Enjoy!

Hey, this is Gavin here with my first podcast. Today, I spend a bit of time introducing you to some of my dogs as well as my goals for the season ahead.

The music that opens and closes this podcast is Hobo Jim singing his famous "Iditarod Trail." This excerpt is freely available from his Web site at: http://www.hobojim.com/recordings.htm We hope you'll check out Hobo Jim's music, as he has many more wonderful songs to share.

If you're interested in learning more about Gavin Baker and Traildancer Kennels, visit traildancer.com.   Enjoy!