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MUSH, MON

Dogsled tours of Jamaica. Jimmy Buffet as the team's sponsor. Olympic dreams. Could it get any more surreal?
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JUDITH RITTER
Special to The Globe and Mail
Nov. 29, 2006

Jamaica is full of surprises: the generosity of the people, the narrow roads dropping down into green valleys, the wild variety of fruits, and a fascinating cuisine. And there are dozens of activities for travellers from diving on Caribbean reefs to hurtling down a zip line while suspended in a harness 30 metres over forest. Nothing, however, surprised me more than what I was about to do under this 28-degree sun -- go dogsledding.

Devon Anderson, a stocky man with big hands and a deep rumbling laugh, has the distinction of being Jamaica's premier musher (in fact, given the scarcity of huskies, snow and sleds, not surprisingly, the only musher in the Caribbean)....

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