Yes — we race.
One of the questions guests ask most is: do you actually race? We do. It is great fun for us and for the dogs — and it keeps our focus on nutrition, training and breeding razor sharp, all year round.
Four mushers, one kennel
Tours run as normal all winter
Leif Tore – the boss himself.
Leif Tore has raced since long before Sjusjøen Husky Tours existed — it all started with his first Alaskan Malamutes nearly twenty years ago. Today he runs the long ones, with a third place in the 200 km Gausdal Maraton on the shelf.
Between races he is still the one serving every dog its evening meal. Racing and care are the same job here.
Jørgine — 450 km at minus forty.
Jørgine Massa Vasstrand completed the 450 km Femundløpet in 2024, in temperatures down to minus forty — with dogs you can meet at our kennel, like Pinto, Mummi, Pernille and Kiara.
Her TV2 series about the journey, «Jørgine — alene med flokken», is streaming on TV2 Play.
Sebastian & Morten — mushing since 1999.
Sebastian Plur Nilssen has raced sled dogs since 1999, runs the dog-gear company Non-stop dogwear, and has a stack of Femundløpet and Finnmarksløpet starts behind him. Morten Sundli completes the team.
Race nights look like this: headlamps, frost smoke, and several hundred paws drumming off into the dark.
Racing is our quality control.
Racing keeps the bar high all year: what the dogs eat, how they train, which qualities we breed for. And the tour program runs exactly as normal all winter — races or not.
When you book — especially the 30 km — you may well have some of the best racing dogs in the country in your own team.
