About Our Dogs and Horses

I have been raising and training my dogs and horses for many years. I taught myself to dogsled. The way I train them is resistance free for both dogs and horses. Dogs and horses don't learn by pressure but the release from it. Make the wrong thing difficult and the right thing easy. This way they think it is their idea to do the right thing, not yours, which makes it resistance free. This may sound easy, but to release at the proper time you need to understand and communicate with what they're thinking. What I'm trying to say is your dealing with a person who is fantatical about dogs and horses and has made his life's ambition to understand and love the animals. Even though you use the same techniques on dogs and horses it has a different result with each individual animal. I believe you are born with an innate personality be you human, dog, or horse. You will have these personality differences even though they are treated the same, love and mature equally. Although you can instantly change a natural personality by one moment of abuse. These techniques I use are the same that the so called horse whisperers use.

More About Mountain Musher

We are a family owned and operated company. Wally runs the lead team and trains all of the dogs. Denise answers the phones and takes your reservation. Denise also makes the cocoa and homemade pumpkin bread served at our break on the trail. Our daughter, Sarah, is one of the mushers and lives at the ranch with the dogs. Let's not forget Bill, our best friend who's been with The Mountain Musher since the start of operation in 1989. Bill drives the shuttle van that picks you up and he runs the last sled on the trail. When you meet Bill you'll see why we've put him in charge of the entertainment.

Dogsled tours aren't something we do just to make money. Animals are our life and could not imagine our life with out them. Our dogs are so friendly and pet like, because they know we truly love them.