People often ask me what dogsled guides do on our days off. I tell them that our days off tend to look a lot like our days on.
For example, I had this week off from guiding to celebrate a late Christmas with my parents who visited from Iowa. What did I find myself doing on my day off? Sure enough, dogsledding. I took my dad and a few friends dogsledding up to Basswood Lake for a day trip. We cruised around on the dogsleds, set some tip-ups, and had a nice fire and some Zup’s polish sausage. The crappies weren’t active, but we pulled up several pike, including the one in the below photo.
We also spied two wolves along the way. We saw one that looked somewhat weak on Sunset Road on the way to Fall Lake. The other seemed healthy and robust as it loped across Muskeg Lake off of the Four Mile.
I suppose it’s a good sign that you like your job if you do it on your days off.
