"Trail Check" (40"x24", Oil on canvas). ...Together, we had covered more distance in those four hours than I could in a day. I feel that odd sensation all mushers must, when you know you're about to take that step where, should you loose your team, you may not be able to walk back in a day's time. My life was beginning to depend on these small, happy, Be-ings. It was a different way of looking at them than I had ever known before... (From, my short-story, "Brooks Range.")