Last year at Kigluait Adventures was GREAT!
We had a really exciting time introducing a number of new programs. The special events “Adopt-A-Dog” and “Sled Dogs with Santa” were absolute standouts for us. We are thrilled to be adding a few more this year that we think will be just as great.

Because we had such a good year, it was a huge affirmation to all our hard work to win the CILC Pinnacle Award.

We only have you all to thank for that... THANK YOU!

As a token of our appreciation we are happy to offer a free multi-point (Mushing Alaska or Meet-A-Musher) program to any classroom that participates in a program this September!

As a reminder of what we have going on this September...

Our Special Event is a new program titled “Gold Fever” that has your students doing real-life math solving a claim-jumping dispute in an old-time, Gold Rush era, miner's meeting along the Yukon river. All the while they will be exploring what kinds of social rules need to be established and maintained to keep a community functioning... be it an isolated mining camp in Alaska, or their very own classroom! A perfect way to reinforce the “what for's” of classroom procedures!

Also this month is a special “Meet-A-Musher” multi-point program that will, for the first time, feature our youngest musher Pippin Hum, currently in training for his very first Jr. Iditarod! You won't want to miss it. (Charlie is off to University this year and we wish him the best of luck.)

Of course we'll also be presenting our standard on-demand, point-to-point connections throughout the month. So come join us for all the early season fun!

Thanks again for helping us to make last year our best year ever. We can't wait to see what this new year brings!

See you all soon,

Christina, Rich, Janet, Pippin

So where does the crooked come from in Crooked Kennels?

Well it's all because I can't build straight. Crooked dog houses. Crooked dog boxes (for the truck). Crooked house. Crooked deck. Crooked chairs. Crooked Kennel!

It's as simple as that. I love building, taking one form 'thing' and making it into some'thing' else. And I love to use something that I made- didn't buy, that is. Which all adds up to me spending a lot of time building stuff. All those things listed above are just a start.

But I rarely take the time to make it straight. It wrecks the whole act of building for me. Plus, I much prefer shapes that are non-ninety degree angles to shapes made from squares and rectangles. So in all my designs I want it to work, to meet my needs as I have defined them but I could care less if it's straight. Form follows function for sure! And function rarely depends on straightness!

And thus, Crooked Kennels!
And lucky for me my dogs seem to enjoy crooked things as much as do!

I don't know if we have eplained it or not but all the photo posts below are from some new technology that we are playing with that lets us post directly to the blog (as well Flicker and Twitter) from the trail.

 We are prety ecited about this and are planningto put together some very fun event around it.  One of which might be to report live from the Yentna checkpoint during Iditarod this year!