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Age: 11, born in March 1998
Birthplace: Wintergreen Dogsled Lodge; Ely, MN
Parents: Ottowa and Dusty
Favorite position: Lead
Favorite quote: "You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement." -Steve Prefontaine

Age: 7, born in March 2002
Birthplace: Bert and Johnny Hyde's home; Ely, MN
Parents: Daisy and Nightshade
Favorite position: Wheel
Favorite quote: "Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment." -- Rita Mae Brown

Age: 8, born in June 2000
Birthplace: Tor Dixon's kennel, Quaanaq, Greenland
Parents: unknown
Favorite position: Lead
Favorite quote: "Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."--Will Rogers

Age: 2, born in March 2007
Birthplace: Wintergreen Dogsled Lodge; Ely, MN
Parents: Patches and Steve
Favorite position: Lead
Favorite quote: "The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid."--Claudia Lady Byrd Johnson

Age: 7, born in March 2002
Birthplace: Crockett Lake, near Ely, MN
Parents: Thule and Goofy
Favorite position: Swing
Favorite quote: "We should eat all of our provisions now so that we have less to carry."--Christopher Robbins, Winnie the Pooh

Age: 1, born in February 2008
Birthplace: Wintergreen Dogsled Lodge; Ely, MN
Parents: Thule and Jens
Favorite position: ? Wherever she goes, she pulls like crazy!
Favorite quote: "Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance."--William Wirt

Age: 2, born in May 2006
Birthplace: Wintergreen Dogsled Lodge; Ely, MN
Parents: Lufa and Bubba
Favorite position: Wheel
Favorite quote: "I run to see who has the most guts."--Steve Prefontaine

Age: 7, born in March 2002
Birthplace: A small kennel, Ely, MN
Parents: unknown
Favorite position: Swing
Favorite quote: "A sled dog's* a sled dog no matter how small."--Dr. Seuss

Age: 1, born in February 2008
Birthplace: Wintergreen Dogsled Lodge; Ely, MN
Parents: Thule and Jens
Favorite position: Wheel
Favorite quote:

Age: 9, born in July 1999
Birthplace: Wintergreen Dogsled Lodge; Ely, MN
Parents: Ruby and Iggy
Favorite position: Lead
Favorite quote: "You have brains in your head. You have claws on your paws*. You can steer your sled to gees or to haws. You're on your own. And you know what you know. You are the dog* who'll decide where to go."--Dr. Seuss

Age: 10, born in October 1999
Birthplace: Bert and Johnny Hyde's home; Ely, MN
Parents: Munchkin and the neighbor's Black Labrador
Favorite position: Lead (next to Saylix)
Favorite quote: "To bark* or not to bark, that is the question . . ."--William Shakespeare, Hamlet

Age: 4, born in March 2005
Birthplace: Wintergreen Dogsled Lodge; Ely, MN
Parents: Lufa and Jens
Favorite position: Swing
Favorite quote: "A mother's paws* are made of tenderness and pups sleep soundly in them."--Victor Hugo

Age: 10, born in October 1999
Birthplace: Bert and Johnnie Hyde's kennel; Ely, MN
Parents: Munchkin and Kinnikinnick
Favorite position: Swing
Favorite quote: "At the center of nonviolence stands the principle of love."--Martin Luther King Jr.

Age: 8, born in May 2000
Birthplace: Lonnie Dupre's kennel; Grand Marais, MN
Parents: Libby and Iggy
Favorite position: Lead or wheel--he listens well and pulls incredibly hard.
Favorite quote: "Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will." --Mahatma Gandhi

Age: 10, born in October 1999
Birthplace: Bert and Johnnie Hyde's kennel; Ely, MN
Parents: Munchkin and Kinnikinnick
Favorite position: Lead (next to Fennel)
Favorite quote: "There is magic in the feel of a harness* and the movement of a dogsled, a magic compounded of distance, adventure, solitude and peace. The way of a dogsled is the way of the wilderness and of a freedom almost forgotten, the open door to frozen waterways of ages past and a way of life with profound and abiding satisfaction."
--Sigurd Olson