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ALL TOURS AND KENNEL VISITS are by reservation only.
"DROP IN" SHORT RIDES: no reservations required.
SLEDS: Up to 300 pounds (excluding musher) and/or three people per sled.
We can run two sleds at one time.
Other guests can join sled riders for the kennel tour ($10/each)
and/or ride after first riders return for the normal ride price.
"TOURI:" No weight restrictions on Touri rides --but they are single-wide seats.
Four people can ride at once, but maximum of two adults per ride.
Two more kids can sit on laps, but they need to be small enough. We run one Touri ride at a time.
Other guests can join the sled or Touri riders for the kennel tour at
$10/each and/or ride after first riders return for the ride price.
To reserve any of our Husky Power Dogsledding programs please call or email us.
301-746-7200, Linda@HuskyPowerDogsledding.com. A $50 deposit must be mailed at time of booking, but most guests simply send the entire amount for convenience. Your check will not be cashed until after your tour. Reservations are fully refundable and changeable with prior notice.
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Payment may be made by cash, personal check, travelers check. So sorry, no charge cards.
There will be no cancellation or change fees for bookings cancelled/changed more than 72 hours before the scheduled reservation. A 25% cancellation fee will be assessed for reservations cancelled/changed 72 to 24 hours ahead; and a 50% cancellation fee for reservations cancelled/changed less than 24 hours ahead. No shows will be charged full price. Gift certificates are transferable but non-refundable.
Husky Power reserves the right to cancel or reschedule any tour due to dangerous weather or trail conditions--no charge of course. We will contact you as soon as possible if any of these conditions exist. Please call two days before your tour to confirm conditions and your tour.
From I-68 take exit 14A onto Rt. 219 South. Travel 13 miles to McHenry. At the only stop light in McHenry, turn left onto Mosser Rd. Bear left at the fork in .25 miles onto Bumble Bee Road. Travel 2 miles to 2008 Bumble Bee on your right. Look for our red sign on your right. Hey-- we're only about 3 little miles from the WISP Ski Resort!
For "point to point" directions click here. Note, Mapquest will give differing, (and only slightly shorter) directions onto Bumble Bee road from it's other end--where it meets up with Rt 219 again making a semi-circle.
All ride participants must sign a general liability waiver, with parents signing for children. (This is common and required by our insurance provider.) Waivers will be available at your tour, or can be downloaded here and brought with you.
Linda Herdering has created mixed media (manipulated photography and watercolor paints) portraits of her Huskies.... available for purchase at Husky Power and select area galleries. Her portraits were accepted to hang in two Arts Council funded galleries: The Gallery in Oakland, MD and the Savalle Gallery, Cumberland, MD (during juried shows.) All artwork is printed on textured watercolor paper which is acid-free. Various sizes, both framed and unframed, are available of many of her pups sporting enchanting expressions. To see samples of her work please click here: (page under construction.) Husky Power PORTRAITS
Linda can also create a stunning portrait in similar media of your pet. She is available (by appointment) to visit your home or office in the local area to photograph your dog or cat... and use the images to build a one-of-a-kind close up portrait of your beloved animal. Please call for more information.
If you'd like to see our dogs in action pulling sleds, etc, plus learn more about us... there's a news segment on a web page you can visit AND/OR you may order this clip along with a FABULOUS slideshow (to music) on your own personal DVD. To order the DVD (for TV players) mailed to you, please send $5.00 (check or cash) to our address below. (Sorry, no VHS format.) We'll send one right away. To view the news segment that NBC NewsChannel 9 in Washington DC aired, visit their page and click on "Play Video." Remember to return to us here at Husky Power Dogsledding!! W*USA 9 News - Call Of The Wild (Note, best viewed with a high-speed.)
Many types of both local and national media have written articles about Husky Power-- exciting for all of us! Our Huskies (and Mike too) were even on the COVER of Maryland Life Magazine (Jan/Feb 2006 issue.)
Two television news crews aired news features on us too-- Channel 9 in Washington DC, and NBC of Cumberland, MD. Stories have been published in Southern Living Magazine, Virginia Living Magazine, Blue Ridge Country Magazine, Parenting Magazine, The Washingtonian Magazine, Mountain Discoveries Magazine, Recreation News, The Washington Post Newspaper, The Baltimore Sun Newspaper, The Frederick News-Post, The Dominion News, The Boston Globe, The Seattle Times, and The Miami Herald among others! Whew!
We believe in giving back to the wonderful community that supports us. One way we can do that is by helping teach our neighboring children and provide to those in need. A few of the groups we have either visited or hosted here at our kennels include: Accident Elementary School, Accident/Bittinger Mennonite School, The Grantsville Salem School, the Life Strokes After School County Program, Kingwood Library Educational Hour, and Believe in Tomorrow (help for terminally ill children and their families) among others.
The following is a press release about our famous Touri wheeled-dogsled. Read on to learn more!
Dogsledding is not just a wintertime activity anymore. Husky Power Dogsledding is now offering warm-weather mushing with its new “dogsled-on-wheels.” Now everyone can enjoy the pristine trails of gorgeous Garrett County throughout the year while being pulled by a team of excited and hard-working huskies. German engineers named the unique, wheeled-dogsled the “Touri.” It’s custom made for the utmost in rider comfort and safety while allowing guests to experience the thrill of dogsledding on trails winding through flowering wilderness forests and through fields of lush green grass. Yes, its still dogsledding—just dogsledding with wheels!
The Herderings, owners of Husky Power, recently imported the Touri dogsledding cart from Germany. There’s nothing like it made in the US. In fact, there’s only one other Touri in America— for guests at a resort in Oregon. It is designed to carry one to three passengers and their musher behind a team of eight to twelve eager sleddogs. They obsessively love to work at pulling it anywhere, anytime. (Photos below.)
"Dryland-mushing” is the term dog drivers use to depict this exciting sport. In areas throughout the world where snow accumulation is not dependable, dryland-mushing races are held with competitors using light racing dogsled carts made of high-tech materials. Local, regional and international dryland-mushing races attract competitors who also race with traditional dogsleds on snow.
The Touri has unusual capabilities including hydraulic brakes on both the front and back wheels, suspension and a parking brake. Unbeknownst to most, the important part of mushing is not enticing the dogs to pull the load, but being able to stop the strong dog team once they are doing so. With specially designed brakes, the Touri can slow down the strongest of teams before they run into the Atlantic Ocean. Conversely, riders enjoy the huskies’ strength and spirit as they bound through the woods and pastures.
The best-kept secret of dogsledding is that all mushers, whether they are recreational dogsledders or experienced racers, must train their dog teams when there is no snow. By the time deep snow comes around, teams will have built up their strength and endurance. Most dogsledders use an ATV or a simple cart for this purpose, depending on how many dogs they have (brakes!) But now that the Touri has arrived on the east coast, visitors to Garrett County can share this breathtaking and exciting secret activity with their Husky Power Dogsledding musher.
All of Husky Power’s rides begin at their home kennel with an orientation and kennel tour. The Herderings believe that the mushing experience should always include an orientation to learn about mushing and how sleddogs live, work and play. Guests can help harness the dogs and even learn to drive the Touri or the sled if they like. Linda Herdering describes the experience as “A truly unique and outrageous way to embrace three meaningful thrills at once… dogs working at what they love to do, the beauty and stillness of nature and the unusual and unexpected excitement of wildlife and husky antics.”
Husky Power Dogsledding and the Herderings also provide dogsledding presentations and kennel visits all through the summer months for both groups and private visitors. When the temperatures become too dangerous to run the fur-coat wearing dogs, enjoying a kennel tour is the way to go. Kennel visits include talks, films of dogsledding, equipment scrutinizing and husky love with playtime. “Experience a dogsledding kennel visit with us,” Linda Herdering said, “and you’ll surely want ten sleddogs of your own. It’s the potato-chip syndrome.”
The huskies are howling their approval at Husky Power Dogsledding. They, too, will happily enjoy the many extended dogsledding seasons to come. They cannot wait for your arrival!
Please see our FAQ page and feel free to call or email.
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