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- International dog team racing

International dog team racing

The Pirena, a *’mushing’ or dog slege pulling race takes place on the cross country ski pistes of La Calme in Font Romeu. This is just one of the stages of the dog sleigh race which is an inter-frontier event and very popular in southern Catalonia. Usually starting at La Partacua - Piedrafita, it ends with fireworks and much festivity at the winning line in La Molinaseveral days later.

*Mushing, or dog sled racing, is an exciting snow sport, which requires a sled pulled by a team of sled dogs controlled by a driver, called the musher. The team consists of about 4-10 dogs, usually trained Eskimo dogs, Siberian Huskies, Samoyeds, or Alaskan Malamutes, that are hitched in pairs. Depending on the duration of the race, a musher may choose to use more dogs. A typical dog sled race varies from 12-30 miles in length and demands much endurance and skill; the process of harnessing dogs and traveling across snow and ice, often in severe conditions, is not for the faint hearted.