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Convincing dogs that running through -40 is their idea, not yours.
means Driving a sled pulled by a team of dogs, typically across snow or ice, by voice command rather than reins.
from Likely from the French imperative 'marche!' ('go!' or 'walk!'), shouted by French-Canadian fur trappers and traders to urge on their dog teams. English speakers heard 'marche' and flattened it into 'mush' — borrowing the command and eventually turning it into the verb for the whole activity. The exact path is debated, but the French-Canadian trail-command origin is the leading, widely cited theory.
- command origin
- mush comes from French marche, meaning walk
- no steering wheel
- you turn sleds by voice command alone
- lead dog iq
- best leaders refuse commands that mean death on thin ice
- iditarod distance
- roughly 1000 miles across alaska in under 9 days