Rodeo waits for the snow to build as he contemplates 1100 miles of mushing.

The handler cabin is 16' x 12', is heated by wood stove, and has no water or power. The barrel stove out front is used to cook wild game meat for the dogs.

Rodeo's truck has a 16-hole dog box and can carry up to 32 dogs.

The dogs have a great view from their new kennel on top of Ogden Mountain.

Cobra's wound has healed nicely and he is back in action.

Annie filled in for Cobra while he was injured. She actually talks with her ears.

Creole has finished the Iditarod on John Barron's team.

Roper is a 55 pound male and a new addition to Klondike dreams.

Slate is a new addition to Klondike Dreams. He is out of John Barron's kennel.

These puppies are only 3 months old and will not be ready to run until next season.

There are two litters of puppies in this pen. One litter is out of Tiffany and Casper, and the other is out of Racket and Porno.

These puppies are out of Pinky and Cobra. They are 5 months old, and we will be harness breaking them at the end of this racing season.

There are rewards to picking up puppy poop.

Rodeo starts every run tying the 4-wheeler to a large tree.

Rodeo walks each dog to the picket line before harnessing anyone.

Rodeo puts Creole on the Picket Line.

Rodeo harnesses each dog before hooking any dogs to the gang line.

Rodeo hooks dogs to the gang line starting with his leaders and working his way back.

The dogs get really excited while waiting to take off on a training run.

Rodeo cautiously takes the team down the Drift Fence Trail.

Cobra and Dexter are in perfect step as they bring the team in from a training run.

Libby gets a drink of water after a training run.

Rodeo picks up harnesses after a run.

Rodeo wraps up the gang line after a training run.

Kathy Barron fills buckets with water for dogs and horses.

John and Kathy Barron get ready to feed their dogs.

Rodeo grinds wild game scraps to feed his dogs.

Rodeo and John Barron stack blocks of frozen meat in the freezer.

The freezer is slowly being filled with ground up game meat that we will feed to the dogs through the winter.

View to the southweast from Ogdon Mountain road

View to the northwest from Ogdon Mountain road

(c) Niel Orcutt / 1977

Dogs hauling gold from the boom-town of Iditarod

The Gold Rush mining camp that sprang up in 1910 and blossomed overnight into a big city on the flatlands near the Innoko and Iditarod Rivers

The trail takes its name from the Athabascan Indian village near the site of a 1908 gold discovery.

The trail was officially surveyed by the U.S. Army's Alaska Road Commission in 1908-11, and dubbed the Seward to Nome Mail Trail.

The war dog training at Camp Rimini, (on base at Fort Harrison,) west of Helena, and it's part in Montana history is commemorated by the Race To The Sky.

A Camp Rimini dog in full dress uniform.

This dog and it's handler were photographed at Camp Rimini just west of Helena, Montana.

The Race To The Sky remembers Camp Rimini and the place in Montana history of war dog training.

This is EllieMae

This is Espresso

This is Granny

This is Jed

This is Jethro

This is Skipper