Hello, I’m Kirsten

I came to the Yukon at twenty-two to work one winter for a woman with twelve dogs, and I stayed. Twenty-four years later I have eight huskies of my own, a woodstove cabin and a kennel that starts every morning with the same noise. I learned most of what I know by getting it wrong in minus thirty.

Most people who write to me do not want to race. They want two or three dogs, a sled or a cart, and a trail they can run on a weekend without anything going wrong. That is what I teach. I film the lessons in the yard and on the lake, and I write down the checklists I wish I had been given.