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Sled dogs: He was mad he didn’t get to run farther

    His nose stuck out of the hole, an aura of perturbance emanating from the little black button.

    “He’s mad,” someone said, as I trained my lens on the dog’s snout. “He wanted to run a lot farther than 6 miles.”

    Pouting

    But that’s all this guy and his team of sled dogs would get to go on this day in February. The weather had not cooperated for the 50th running of the Priest Lake Sled Dog Races.

    Rain and warmer temperatures turned the snow surface into slick ice, and that can be hazardous to dogs and their paws.

    Jed Stephensen of Nordic Wayfinding Kennels told me his dogs are used to 300-mile races, and they were off to one that next weekend.

    A gallery of Jed’s sled dogs

    Here’s a little gallery of Jed’s team starting and finishing their quick little 6-miler.

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    Dogs. Adventure. Outdoors. These words set Angela's heart afire. Angela Schneider, an award-winning writer and dog photographer, documents the story of you and your dog and the adventures you take together. Your portraits will be a statement piece in your home, art that will make your friends and family beg to hear its story.

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