Sydney Koehler asked Terry Lynn Johnson:

Hi I love your books they encouraged me to want to become a musher I feel it would be awesome flying through the snow...Thank You!For all you have done.What age did you wanna be a musher?What encouraged you to do so?

Terry Lynn Johnson Thanks for your enthusiasm, Sydney!

I wanted to be a musher since I learned about this thing called dogsledding. I'm guessing it was when I was about 10. I wasn't allowed to have sled dogs though. I had a hamster. Named Snickers.

I had to wait till I grew up and then I got my own small team. I started by working for a musher and learning how to do it. It takes a while of apprenticing to learn everything the dogs need and to run a team safely.

I hope you are able to get out for a ride with a good musher and see what it's all about!

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