Southern Mushing And ADHD Support

SEPTEMBER 29, 2007

Location: Northwest GA
Time - 10:14 am
Temperature: 63 degrees F
Conditions: Clear
Forecast: Sunny today and tomorrow. Highs in the low 80s, lows in the 50s

We ran a little later than sometimes this morning. We have company and Calypso stayed outside last night. Without her as an alarm clock, I overslept. Our run went very well though and there were no real problems.

Yesterday, I recieved the following message from my friend, Chapin Burgess. Chapin is a musher from Chapin, SC who runs a team of rescued sled dogs. He wrote:

I am looking or an 11-14 year old child to ride with me and 18 dogs in the Serum Run in Damascus, VA in Jan. The child will also get to spend 4 weeks next summer at the Talisman Summer Camp where they work with kids with ADHD and teach them to study and have fun in the outdoors. We shot the video today. The mayor of Chapin, SC is the one interviewing me. It is airing on Ch 2 and on Time Warner Cable here in the Columbia, SC area. I need essays about kids and financial donations to make this happen. So if you know of anyone in the Midlands area let them know about this. When this event takes place it is being recorded by Mike Redding of the Carolina Traveler and will air there in Charlotte. The event is Jan 19, 2008. I am always busy doing things for and with kids and dog sledding. Mike Redding is actually doing a story about a 16 year old girl I have been working with and teaching dogsledding to now for a year. She and I are working towards running the Iditarod in 2010.

I hope this will make a difference in a child’s life today and for a lifetime and that of their parents.

Feel free to pass this on and let others know about it. Of course no donation is too small so let people know about that too.

Thanks
Chapin Burgess

More information can be found on Chapin’s website: http://www.scdogsled.com/ by clicking “ADHD Support” or you can go directly to that page here: http://www.scdogsled.com/index_files/ADHDSupport.html

2 Responses to “Southern Mushing & ADHD Support”
Christian Hollingsworth on 29 Sep 2007 at 11:42 pm # edit this

How far do you run with Calypso?

wolfmoonsleddog on 30 Sep 2007 at 12:18 pm # edit this

Under a mile since it’s so early in the Season. I’m not sure of the exact distance - I generally go by landmarks (as in “we went from the end of the weather box to that first little rock past the downhill curve, and back”).