They're not just sled dogs at work.
They're our buddies our companions.
They're our protectors.
Our dogs are a part of everything that we do
here.
Yay Geo!
Geo's going for his last run.
I'm excited to have him.
Yeah, he's going to be, I think he's going to be a good fit for you.
He's the kind of dog you can take him anywhere you want to go.
You can train him to do anything you want him to do.
Geo is
I always call him my sparkplug dog because he's one of these dogs that
no matter what's going on, in the day, in the world,
on the trail.
He's happy.
He's got his tail wagging.
In fact, his whole body wiggles because he's just a happy dog.
He's a good, solid dog.
He's just not the hardest working dog.
I think he's going to make a great pet dog down in Florida for Denise's two kids.
All right.
Well, hop in and let's go. It's going to be your dog.
You might as well see what he does in Alaska.
Oh, okay.
Okay.
Let's go! Straight ahead!
C'mon go, straight ahead!
Straight ahead, straight ahead.
Woo hoo!
Go Geo!
Straight ahead!
Atta boy!
Straight ahead, let's go!
Straight ahead.
Yeah.
All right.
Whoat, whoa! Let's take a break here.
Good boys!
Hey, Devin, won't you hop out.
Good boy, Batman.
You're doing a good job. You too Goat!
Yay Rockman.
Yay Geo!
You're a good boy, G.
No, you having fun?
Yeah, you're a good dog.
Nobody will replace Geo, cause Geo's kind of a special dog.
Yeah, he came here when Denise came here.
Yeah.
It's time to cut the team back a little bit.
We're a
I don't envision seeing any salmon coming up the river
that we're going to be able to harvest for a number of years,
and it's just not economical to keep a really big dog team.
So we've just got a pare everything down now.
That's probably the very beginning of what
we're going to see with climate change and how it's impacting us. But
now we feel really good about,
you know, where Geo's going to end up
he's going to kind of stay in the family, just a different location.
So it's not like he's gone forever.
Huh? Who do you think?
You want to go run a little bit more?
Okay. Yeah, let's go some more. Okay.
A little bit more.
Alright Devon, that's your first lesson.
Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Stand on a break.
I'm going to let you mush for a while.
Really? Yeah.
Oh, no. Yeah, you hop on.
So this is mushing one on one.
The break you're on, I'm going to call the hard break.
When you want to stop the dogs.
That's it to step on.
Underneath that, there's a snow machine track.
If I say slow them down, you just put your foot on that snow machine track.
Put a little pressure on them.
Okay, go stand hard on it.
Cause when I pull this snow hook up, sometimes that's a signal to go.
Hup, hup! Hup, hup!
Woo, that a boy!
Woo hoo!
Good boy Geo!
Right!
Woo hoo!
Good boy!
Straight Ahead! Yay Geo!