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Author: Christina Gibson

Christina Gibson is a young dog musher from Washington state. Growing up close to nature she was taught wilderness survival skills from a young age, and has a special love of wildlife tracking. Gibson competes with her sled dog team in races all across the states and Canada with hopes of one day competing in the world famous 1,000 mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. When she's not training her team for races, she spends her time taking photos and tracking in the hills around the valley with her dogs.
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Christina Gibson
Tuesday, 05 December 2017 / Published in Uncategorized

Checkpoint Training

Run. Eat. Sleep. Repeat. I’m fairly sure that if you looked up ‘Training a Dog team for races’, this is what would come up. Camping trips, or ‘Checkpoint Training’, will prepare us for checkpoints at the Race to the Sky, and the Junior Iditarod, as well as future races. The dogs on my team that
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Christina Gibson
Tuesday, 07 November 2017 / Published in Uncategorized

Hellhounds

Can we talk about the first few fall hook ups? In fact, let’s just talk about the first fifteen. Take a moment and picture dogs that are bred to run and have endless amounts of energy and endurance. Then picture them sitting all summer until it gets cool enough to run again. Of course, if
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Christina Gibson
Wednesday, 01 November 2017 / Published in Uncategorized

Summer

During the summer months, the most common question that I get asked is ‘What do you do with them in the summer?’ First off, I typically don’t train the team unless it’s below 50 degrees Fahrenheit, with a few exceptions concerning the weather (i.e. Wind, humidity, clouds, rain, etc.), which means the dogs typically don’t
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Christina Gibson
Wednesday, 01 November 2017 / Published in Uncategorized

WRK 2017 – March 18, 2017

The team and I ran in the Conconully Snow Dog Super Mush as our final snow race of the season. We finished 7th with a day one time of 1:35:44 and a day two time of 1:36:11. In a field of mostly sprint style teams I’m very happy with how we did. I decide to
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Christina Gibson
Thursday, 18 May 2017 / Published in Uncategorized

The Eagle Cap Extreme – January 2017

We had an amazing weekend at the ECX. It was an incredibly well run race. The staff were incredible, the trails gorgeous, and the vet team was no less than outstanding. I’m so proud of how the team handled the course, and the yearlings have officially tackled their first race.When you leave the chute you
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Christina Gibson
Thursday, 27 October 2016 / Published in Uncategorized

Fall

We have officially kicked off the 2016-17 Sleddog season! Our first run was a little wacky- the dogs didn’t quite have the rhythm of running down yet. We’ve run three times so far and the dogs are slipping right back into routine. Freckles, the newest dog in the kennel, is doing very well and is
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Christina Gibson
Tuesday, 16 August 2016 / Published in Uncategorized

Whiteout Racing Kennel

Fall training is just around the corner! Come back soon for the start of our blog! In the meantime, take a moment to check out the WRK Facebook Page for more insider info this coming season!
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