The August Foundation and Light Up the Lead Dogs are both raising money and purchasing gear that will help dogs stick out on dark, multi-use trails.
After fatal collisions between mushing teams and snowmachines, Alaska dog groups push for safety gearMusher Dutch Johnson, a kennel manager at The August Foundation for Alaska Racing Dogs, runs a dog team on trails maintained by the Chugiak Dog Mushers Association on Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024. The lead dogs are illuminated for safety.
Lead dogs Magic, left, and his brother Geronimo, right, are illuminated during a run at dusk on the Beach Lake Trails in Chugiak on Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024. “I thought I could start a trend,” Johnson said. “I give them to enough people that people that don’t have one would buy them, hopefully. And also snowmachiners will learn to recognize a standardized set of lights and know what it is.”
“We were able to get those nice $70 harnesses down to a rate that that we could afford to buy them for the mushers using donations,” he said. While that was enough to outfit 55 teams, Johnson said they had raised enough to buy well over 400 harnesses, enough for more than 100 four-dog teams. in the wake of the incident with Seavey’s team, which was being driven by Josiah Liebe, who works for Seavey’s Talkeetna-based kennel.
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