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245 viewsGetting ready for a long journey by dogsled, Shari Gearheard and Yvon Csonka don polar bear pants.
Image courtesy Andy Mahoney.
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204 viewsShari (right) and Lene (left) watch the dogs and sleds getting ready.
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197 viewsThe group packs up a dogsled for the journey north.
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193 viewsAndy Mahoney poses before the dogsled ride north.
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195 viewsA dog team waits patiently.
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173 viewsA sled dog stands in its harness.
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176 viewsThe sled dogs are getting excited, getting ready to head north to Siorapaluk.
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162 viewsThe dogs are off!
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171 viewsAndy Mahoney cuts frozen seal liver during a break on the journey.
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166 viewsAndy Mahoney tastes some seal liver--it just melts in your mouth!
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158 viewsA dog team fans out on the ice.
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214 viewsOpen water and thin ice are hard to see in the flat light and poor visibility.
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