Северная Надежда

Diane Baker, an experienced racer from Australia, a secretary of the Australian Sledding Sport Association, expresses her impressions of the past competition: 17.02.2008

“I was very fortunate to be invited from

Australia to compete in the North Hope Sleddog Race. The scenery and trail was amazing as well as challenging. I enjoyed this race very much as it tested and developed my skills in snow, and with a new team of dogs. During the race I developed a strong bond and trust with this 6 dog team and even though I don’t speak Russian the dogs understood what I wanted. . The dogs and I learnt a lot about trust and working as one team to achieve a difficult task. I thank the dogs for working with me to finish this event and the children for allowing me to race their dogs.  I also thank North Hope for inviting me and allowing me to test my mashing skills in an environment that I will never experience in

Australia. I would recommend this event to every Russian Musher, it was very well organized, the trails great to run on and the scenery magnificent.  I hope to return to

Russia to compete in this event again”.

You can see the album with photos from the race „North Hope-2008”

The album with photos from the race „North Hope-2008” is ready. You can see it here. For better watching on different computers the inscriptions are codified in UTF-8.

The race is finished!

10.02.2008

The sled dog race “North Hope-2008” is finished. During the race, which lasted three days, participants got over distance of 150km. Here you can see the report of competition’s score. The winners are: Alexandr Anikin (Murmansk), Mikhail Bragin (Podolsk) and Viacheslav Demchenko (Moscow). The 4th place took Mikhail Koldayev (Karelia, „Bolshoye prikluchenye”). Mikhail Koldayev was just 7 minutes behind Viacheslav Demchenko! Our pupil Misha Sypko took the 5th place.

Many thanks for all participants, organizers, referees and volunteers! You are always welcome to our competitions!

The first day of our contest passed.
08.02.2008

The participants went the first lap of the route 43 km long. The movement was complicated by bad weather conditions: heavy snow-fall and wind. What is more, almost 20 km of the route lay across spacious open lots.

In result of the first day the leaders are: Aleksandr Anikin, Mikhail Bragin, Viatsheslav Demtshenko.

The third lap is ready!
05.02.2008

We are finishing trails: the last lap is ready. We had build in the forest special “nests” for foto and video operators.
Now we are ready for race and organized everything to meet teams and guests.

Two laps are ready
24.01.2008

Today we finished two laps (from three in the total race). Each lap is about 50 km. The trails are going through the beautiful places deep in the forest. Now we can show you how it goes on the Google map and some pictures from the laps.

Last news from the trail
22.01.2008

We are going on with preparing the race. Now we are making the trail by snowmobiles. It’s really plenty of snow. We are sinking in it!

The new snowmobile
12.01.2008

Now we have the new modern snowmobile – “Buran”. As we got it, making the trail for the race became much easier! Great thanks to our sponsors!

Working at the sled dog race “Severnaya Nadezhda”
28.11.2007

The sled dog kennel (Siberian husky, Alaskan husky, Alaskan malamute) “Severnaya Nadezhda” and Sled Dog Sporting Federation of Kostroma region is organizing the race at February 8-10 2008. The race is the second lap of the race trial “Winter Cup - 2008”. The first lap will take place at Yakunino (Tver region) at February 2-3 2008. The third lap will be in Sochi at March 2008. All laps of the trial are the separate events with winners and qualifications.

“Severnaya Nadezhda” race will have 200 km. trail and would be held on three days. In each day the race will go 50-70 km, the trails are organized in “flower form” with the main base in the center of “flower”. The number of dogs that is allowed to finish the Race with in 2008 is six (6). Mushers from Kostroma and Kostroma region, Moscow and Moscow region, Kamchatka, Chanty Mansiysky region, Kolsky peninsula, Australia. Now we are preparing the trail for the race and testing our equipment. One or two young mushers (12-14 year old) from our kennel will participate in the race.