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Feb 4, 2025 at 5:23 pm #3827848
Recently completed a project for a customer who wanted an ultralight version of my long distance steering sled. I used Ultra 100x 112gsm for the bag and Dyneema 18gsm for the built in tunnel tent. He likes flamboyant bags so I used hot pink bias binding and pink webbing for the details and reversed the Ultra 100x so the shiny side was showing on the lid of the sled bag. By using these fabrics together with lightweight runners I was able to get the weight down to 18.4kg instead of 21.5kg for my standard model.
Feb 4, 2025 at 5:27 pm #3827849Feb 4, 2025 at 5:32 pm #3827850Holy cow. That’s cool. More pics and backstory, please?
Feb 4, 2025 at 11:31 pm #3827857Thanks!
The sled is designed around a vacuum infused carbon/kevlar baseplate. The tent came about because sleeping in a bivy bag in bad weather sucks but regular tents are not practical for mushers to use on the trail. It has two hoops that are always installed so you just have to unzip a flap on the side of the sled bag, pull out the tent and put in a snow peg. It’s a single wall sil nylon tent, once inside you can access the sled bag via another zip so there’s no need to expose your sleeping bag to a blizzard. If you have a tent the rules allow you to carry a much smaller, lighter wind sack rather than a bulky extreme weather bivy bag so you save space and weight by having the tent.Joar Liefseth Ulsom’s camp between Ophir and Cripple on the Iditarod 2023
Feb 6, 2025 at 5:19 pm #3828023Impressive!
Feb 6, 2025 at 9:09 pm #3828029That is so cool!!! Thank you for sharing.
Feb 7, 2025 at 8:10 am #3828047Thank you for posting – brings back great memories of when a friend of mine and I spent a week dogsledding in the Yukon in February 1999. It was just the two of us plus our guide (who led on a snow machine) and we had a blast! We never slept out on the trail, but we did mush out to a yurt compound set up by the outfitter. It started snowing one day and I remember it taking me forever to put booties on my nine dogs! I will say that the sled I was driving looked nothing like the one you built – it looks amazing even without the integrated tunnel tent!
Feb 7, 2025 at 1:23 pm #38280599 dogs for a week is a pretty serious tour, sounds like a great trip!
I used to train 16 dogs when I was racing and putting booties on and off was a real pain in the back!
Feb 7, 2025 at 1:27 pm #3828060I like the large snow drifts out your window
Feb 7, 2025 at 7:03 pm #3828075We’ve had relatively little snow this year, it usually gets so you can’t see out of that window. This picture was taken in May 2022
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