Dyneema Sled bag and tent

Holy cow. That’s cool. More pics and backstory, please?

Thanks!
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

Impressive!

That is so cool!!! Thank you for sharing.

Thank 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!

9 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!

I like the large snow drifts out your window

We’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

So my customer, Matti Salmi, got second place in the world championship 450km race in Femund, Norway, last Friday. I’d like to claim credit but his amazing team of Siberians  had a lot more to do with it than my sled.
Still, it was a very cool feeling to watch it cross over the finish line 😎https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0UdQfqbhLpLgRF4cDHqq557SqV9cPdQiwzF1BxoFgFsJFPBP3kunCZqRNb9feZGK1l&id=687633303

This is so rad. UL dogsledding? Why not? Well done!

Thanks!

I’m planning on making a carbon fibre cooler next (used by mushers to prepare food and sit on while sledding) The plastic ones weigh about 4.5lbs, I think I can at least halve that.

First attempt at making a carbon/kevlar cooler. It’s not beautiful but it weighs 700g less than the plastic coolers that mushers typically use to prepare their dogs food in.