Fairbanks and Sled Dogs
Fairbanks was founded to serve the miners who came to search for gold and is now the largest city in the interior of Alaska. My main activity was to ride the Riverboat Discovery paddle boat on the Chena River. We visited the racing sled dog training facility started by four-time Iditarod champion Susan Butcher and a reconstructed Athabascan village.
Riverboat Adventure, Fairbanks
Bush pilot demonstration
Take-off
Flyby
Chena River
Tekla Monson, Susan Butcher's daughter
The dogs are ready to go
Summer racing dog training
Rounding the corner
A well-earned drink
Chena Village, an Athabascan reconstruction
Alaskan taxidermy
Poster of Susan Butcher and Don Monson with her lead dog, Granite
Statue of Granite
Alaskan Huskies in their kennels at Chena Village and Denali National Park
