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About Me

I've been in Alaska for 4 years now, splitting my time between Anchorage in the winter and Denali in the summer. After training a team of dogs for the Iditarod for two mushers for three winters I was given the opportunity to run it last year to train in our "puppy" team. I also substitute 3-4 days a week for k-3 during the winter. I can proudly say that I am earning a living at two of my passions, mushing and teaching, something I could only dream of doing when I was younger.

My Interests

Mushing, canoeing, gardening, reading, ultimate frisbee, natural history, teaching, traveling, hiking, camping, writing...ect width="425" height="350"param name="

I'd like to meet:

Dahli Lama, Joe Reddington Sr., Leonhard Seppela, Admiral Byrd

Music:

Ben Harper, Ben Folds, Greg Brown, Neil Diamond (the older stuff), Alison Krauss. My interests are so ecclictic I can't list them all.

Movies:

Iron Will, Finding Forester, Chasing Amy, Dead Poets Society, Good Will Hunting, Twelve Angry Men

Television:

Well, I'm watching the Thanksgiving Day Game right now, but this is the first time I've watched TV since the NBA finals.... It's hard to watch TV when you don't own one, not that I'd have the time or want to sit inside and watch all that brainless mind numbing crap. When I do get a chance though, Discovery channel, PBS, History, or any quality news channel.

Books:

A Brave New World, Ishmael, The Cruelest Miles, River Why, Siddhartha, Sand County Almanac, anything by Sigurd Olsen, The Dark Elf Trilogy, Lord of the Rings, Ender's Game

Heroes:

Leonhard Seppela, Christian Bisson, Barry Sanders, Miguel de Grayling, my father. Would rather call them Role Models.

My Blog

Flash

Death seems harder when your not expecting it. Came home from work today to find that sometime this morning one of our retirees (who since returned to us due to massive flooding in his new...
Posted by Bryan on Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:29:00 PST

Lazy People

So I don't like excessive complaining, but I can't hold it in any longer. Some people's work ethics flat out suck. Or maybe thats just the way I see things. Maybe their work ethic is...
Posted by Bryan on Sun, 10 Sep 2006 12:06:00 PST

Nude Sites/ NO WAY

So here's the deal I think I want to come up with a way to charge these people who send me "add as friend requests" if: #1 I don't know them and #2 they have no information on their page other than a ...
Posted by Bryan on Thu, 24 Aug 2006 07:40:00 PST

What ever happened to meaningful converstaions?

So I'm single. I'm pretty content with it. Not actively looking and not closing the doors to opportunity. Not many doors open with my schudule with training dogs (don't meet ma...
Posted by Bryan on Tue, 22 Aug 2006 11:19:00 PST

fortunate circumstances???

Have I lived a life blessed? Serendipty, Luck, Chance, Karma, Fate? Whenever I have been in what should be my darkest hours, something miracously happens. Out of the blue un...
Posted by Bryan on Tue, 22 Aug 2006 10:51:00 PST

Bears eat meat too

"When in Alaska, man (or woman for that matter) is no longer the top of the food chain." This is a simple lesson nature can teach us if we listen carefully. Fishing for salmon f...
Posted by Bryan on Wed, 26 Jul 2006 07:59:00 PST

memorial service

Just got in from attending a memorial service for Mellen Shea. She is a woman I met just a few times out mushing, but because she was a good friend of a friend of mine and a pretty big figure in...
Posted by Bryan on Sun, 16 Apr 2006 06:56:00 PST

Kobuk440

Kobuk 440 4/6-4/9 2006 Atop Cape Nome with no more than 10 miles left in my rookie run of the Iditarod I sat looking forward to Nome and the finish line and looking back over the 1,100 miles that I h...
Posted by Bryan on Sat, 15 Apr 2006 10:43:00 PST

GOT SAD?

Seasonal Affect Disorder- Ya I've heard about it. I've heard people complain about it fo the past 10+ years and never seemed to think much of it. Sure the sun causes depression...&nb...
Posted by Bryan on Thu, 22 Dec 2005 10:22:00 PST

Close encounters of the mushing kind

Alright, so now I'm sick, stuck in bed, all because I was too stubborn to admit I was getting sick in the first place... bright side is I can make Lee and Mike happy and make my first post. Yes ...
Posted by Bryan on Thu, 22 Dec 2005 10:18:00 PST