Welcome to CHC Sleddog Supply!

I began running dogs under harness over a decade ago. What began as an insane idea to run a longer trapline on virtually no money led me to hook four rottweilers in hand-stitched harnesses made of 2" nylon seatbelt strap in front of a sled made of wooden skis and lawnmower handles. Thank God there are no pictures from those days!

In the beginning, I knew so little about dogsledding it's a wonder we ever got anywhere and a miracle we didn't drown in Black Creek or suffer some kind of serious head trauma from all the trees that jumped out and attacked us. With a lot of trial and error - and incessantly picking the brains of various mushers, near and abroad - I assembled a reasonable breeding program, an appropriate working/rec team, and superior equipment.

Still, having grown up on a farm where money was always tight and often absent, paying others to manufacture anything less technologically sophisticated than a toaster oven was inconceivable (not to mention a slight against some distant Scottish forbear). So, aside from a couple harnesses and a little basket sled made by veteran musher Doug McNeil - formerly of Chatmac - I learned to manufacture all of my own equipment, exacting rugged and professional standards by sheer virtue of necessity. I also learned to wheel and deal enormous industrial sewing machines because handstitching poly webbing is about as fun as a case of herpes.

So, here is some of what I make. I'll be adding more to these pages soon. And bear in mind that I'm in the process of timberframing a new addition to the carriage shop, so eventually I'll get the steamer set up again, and in spring, the sawmill, so I'll get some more sleds up for sale soon.

                                                                                      Cameron