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Squid Acres mushers Paige Drobny and Cody Strathe

Squid Acres is home to Cody Strathe, Paige Drobny and lx Alaskan Huskies.  The couple has been building their kennel and developing their line of dogs for roughly eight years.  Squid Acres Kennel wasn't originally founded with the idea of racing, merely instead to explore the wilderness and beautiful places of Alaska past canis familiaris team.  Cody and Paige take found expeditions by dog team to be an invaluable manner to bond with their dogs and railroad train for races.  When the snow falls and the rivers freeze, the couple takes to the n, WAY n with their dogs.

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Cody Strathe

When information technology comes to breeding and raising sled dogs, Cody thinks at that place'southward nothing more exciting than watching goofy little pups abound into racing sled dogs.  When asked what he likes best nigh running sled dogs Cody replied, "Fourth dimension alone with my best furry friends in the wildest places in Alaska."  He became involved in running dogs when he traveled and camped by canis familiaris team with friends.

Cody Strathe is in for a distance double of one,000-mile sled dog races for 2016.  He'll brand his beginning run to Nome in Iditarod XLIV a couple of short weeks afterward completing the 2022 Yukon Quest.  Cody won't be the only Squid Acres musher to make the distance double, Paige is likewise signed up for both the Quest and Iditarod.  This is an amazing feat for their kennel.  Cody says, "It'south very exciting to be out there with all my favorites.. my wife and my dogs."   He believes that they'll be the first married couple to run both races (Iditarod and Quest) in the aforementioned season.

Paige says she got into mushing thanks to a sled Cody built her for Christmas.  When asked to comment on what she loves virtually about running dogs, Paige said, "Being with my all-time dog companions and the serenity exploration that nosotros go to exercise together."

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Paige Drobny

Drobny has finished Iditarod iii times since 2013.  Her first terminate was in 34th place, so in 2014 she moved up to 25th place and 27th in 2015.  Her best time for Iditarod is 10 days, 4 hours, and 42 minutes.  She's finished the Yukon Quest as a rookie in 2012 in 14th identify and received the Quest Sportsmanship Award.

Once Paige and Cody decided to race, they accept found their lives have go fifty-fifty more focused on the dogs.  Paige considers this as a very proficient thing.  From the racing page of the Squid Acres website, "Races allow us to set goals and so focus on the dogs to reach those goals.  The 24/7 attention the dogs crave to accomplish those goals, enriches all of our lives."

Aside from mushing, Paige does biological enquiry through her ain visitor, Spearfish Enquiry.  Keeping busy isn't a problem for Cody either.  Besides running dogs and archeology projects, Strathe, under the name of Dog Paddle Designs, builds custom dog sleds, wooden boats and paddles.