Rad Dog-P.J. Keizer, Radiologist
After graduating from Marshfield High School in Coos Bay, Oregon, in 1979, Rad Dog went on to earn a BS degree from Notre Dame, in 1983. He continued his education with a Masters in Radiation Health at Oregon State in 1986. After working for several years in safety programs at nuclear plants, Rad Dog received his doctorate in medicine at St. Louis University School of Medicine, in 1994. He did his residency training in radiology at UMKC, finishing in 1998. Cave Dog joined up with Rad Dog in Kansas City in order to get some high volume inner city EMT experience at MAST ambulance service. Currently, Rad Dog is a radiologist at Bay Area Hospital in Coos Bay, Oregon.
Rad Dog is a veteran from the 14er, Adirondack, Catskill, and Southern Appalachian Dog Teams. During the Mighty Mountain Megamarathon(M 4), Rad Dog was in charge of all medical needs. He was also the primary driver of the Kennel. Rad Dog put the chaotic financial accounting to some order. In addition, he took charge of vehicle maintenance of the four vehicles and the videography.
During the Marshall Mountain Madness Ultramarathon(M3 ) and the Crazed Catskills Ultramarathon(C2), Rad Dog was in charge of all medical needs and videography and also help out with the hiking support.
During the South Beyond Insanity
Ultramarathon(SBI), Rad Dog helped out with hiking and car support and
was once again incharge of all medical needs and videography.
Before The 2003 Long Trail challenge, Rad Dog came to Vermont a week and half early and helped out Cave Dog in his training and scouting of The Long Trail. During the challenge, he gave undying support from the field and tended all medical needs. He also hiked with Cave Dog on the last strech.
Before The 2003 Long Trail challenge, Rad Dog came to Vermont a week and half early and helped out Cave Dog in his training and scouting of The Long Trail. During the challenge, he gave undying support from the field and tended all medical needs. He also hiked with Cave Dog on the last strech.
Rus Dog-Elena Belyaeva (Елена Беляева), Graduate Student
Burns Dog-Eric Freeman
Princeton, Carleton, San Franscico
Burns Dog was the relief driver during the M4challenge, which means he drove constantly. He was in charge of navigating and spent some time figuring driving distances. Burns Dog also became the main contact for the media.
Before the 2003 attempt of the LTR, Burns Dog came a few days earily and helped out with the enormous logistics that come with such an undertaking. During the challenge, he provided backcountry support, helped at base camp, and hiked with Cave Dog during on the last day.Lady Dog did not grow up in any particular
place. She has lived in Utah, Queensland, Australia, Greeley, Colorado,
and a short time in Oviedo, Spain. In 1991, she moved to Myrtle
Creek, Oregon. After graduating from South Umpqua High School in
Myrtle Creek, she went to Willamette University where she earned a
degree in Philosophy. It was at Willamette University that she
met Good Dog, a very close friend of Cave Dog. In 1997, Lady Dog
and Good Dog got married. In the fall of 1997, they moved to
Philadelphia where Lady Dog did postgraduate studies in Classics at the
University of Pennsylvania. They currently live in Coos Bay,
Oregon. She has recently finished her Masters in
Education from the University of Oregon. She has plans to teach
high
school English.
During the M3, she was the base camp manager and
spokesperson for the media. She organized
the support teams and kept track of the overall project. She
kept particular care to make sure everyone had plenty of food and
drinks. Everyone has Lady Dog to thank for working hard to
keep the website updated as soon as information came out from the field.In the intervening years, Cave Dog has gotten to know Lady Dog not just through Good Dog but as friends in their own right. Good Dog and Lady Dog have always extended an open home to Cave Dog in his frequent visits to Oregon and they have done many interesting excursions together.
In 2000, Lady Dog joined The Dog Team in their record breaking challenge of the M4. She was in charge of the website design and updates. She was also the primary driver of the backup four wheel drive vehicle. In addition, she helped Scurv E. Dawg with making sure that nothing was amiss with Cave Dog's pack.
During the C2, Lady Dog helped D Dog as cobase camp managers. She was in charge of the website updates, answered the phones, compiled and recored times, and helped out with the cooking.
During the SBI, Lady Dog was the base camp manager. She updated the website, organized the chaotic inflow and outflow of Dog Team members coming and going from hiking and car support, and cooked up some delicious trail food.
During the 2003 attempt of the LTR, Lady Dog was once again in
charge of base camp. She updated the website, assigned people
support locations, and moved the base camp from Bolton to Stratton.
Good Dog-Jason Goodson, Middle School Teacher
Good Dog continues to appreciate the outdoors and currently lives in, and teaches near, Cave Dog and his hometown of Coos Bay, Oregon. Subjects such as Language Arts and Computer Science are the disciplines that Good Dog offers for his middle school students to investigate. Curious inquiry into these topics has created a web of knowledge and personal understanding for each student. When educating our youth, or thinking about life, Good Dog tries to remember that one should never stop learning and wondering about the world that surrounds each and every one of us.
During the Adirondack challenge, Good Dog was the navigator for the driving support. He also was Cave Dog's massage therapist during and after the event.
During the SBI, Good Dog did some of the more remote hiking and car support.
During the 2003 LTR attempt, Good Dog supported Cave Dog in the backcountry.
Groove Dog-Mike Guerette, Vagabond
During the M3 challenge, Groove Dog helped out with some of the more remote hiking support locations. He also cooked up some of the best backcountry meals during the event.
During the 2003 LTR attempt, Groove Dog helped out by hiking with Cave Dog during the first night. He also helped with some of the road crossings.
Night Dog-Ralph Ryndak, Production
Coordinator
During the C2, Night Dog hiked thourough out the night with Cave Dog and provided much needed support and company.
Living up to his specialty, Night Dog was essential to keeping Cave Dog going through particularly difficult night hikes during the 2003 Long Trail Record attempt.
Because Yankee Dog works for a large Corporation and has a windowless office, he heads north almost every weekend for some mountain therapy. He has climbed all of the New Hampshire 48 several times, including most in winter, and has done many of his favorites, Franconias, and Presidentials, between 10 to 20+ times. Yankee Dog has also climbed peaks in Colorado, New Mexico, Tennessee, New York (1/4 of the Adirondack 46), Vermont, and Maine, including Katahdin 7 times.
Yankee Dog met Cave Dog by closely following the M3 Challenge. He was so impressed with Cave Dog’s accomplishment that he emailed him asking if he had any plans for attempting the NH48 record. They emailed each other for the next several weeks. Then in midJuly, Cave Dog emailed him asking if he would like to join his support team for a record attempt in the second week of August. Yankee Dog gladly accepted.
During the W2 Challenge, Yankee Dog helped out with finding base camp, with time projections and optimal support locations, and also with some of the more remote hiking support.
During the 2003 LTR attempt, Yankee Dog hiked with Cave Dog during the nights.
Adog-Richard Kelly, Retired Attorney
Base Dog is a nursing consultant and Adog, an attorney; and they are semiretired. They have spent all seasons these past four years on the mountains and waters of the Adirondacks when not volunteering, gardening, playing tennis, partying, or traveling to visit one of their three children in New England, or going back to Long Island, to Canada, to Florida, or just about anywhere else.
Adog and Base Dog's home has been a regional base camp for both training and the Marshall Mountain Maddness Ultramarathon. During the M3, they helped at base camp and with hiking support.
During the W2, Adog helped out with the driving support.
During the C2, Adog helped out with the driving support and hiked with Cave Dog during some of the road hikes.
During the 2003 LTR attempt, Adog partnered up with Gold Dog for some of the backcountry support.
Gold Dog-Bill Stowe, Retired Rowing Coach
Perhaps Gold Dog's greatest athletic achievement was stroking the American Eight Man shell to a gold medal victory in the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo. Gaining rowing experience at Kent School and Cornell University, Gold Dog joined Philadelphia's Vesper Boat Club after a 1963 Navy tour running the Officer's club in Saigon, Viet Nam. The Vesper Club went on to upset the nation's college crew to become the last American boat to win the Olympics. Gold Dog wrote the book All Together about this experience.
Gold Dog met Cave Dog last autumn during their scouting of the peaks.
During the M3 challenge, Gold Dog helping out with the hiking support and the media.
During the 2003 LTR attempt, Gold Dog partnered up with Adog for some of the backcountry support.
After graduating from High School in 1969,
Lucky
Dog was drafted directly into the military during the Vietnam War
campaign.
Following one year of technical training and obtaining a secret
security
clearance, he served two years traveling throughout Italy calibrating
and
maintaining mountain top microwave communication sites. While in
Italy,
he attended the University of Maryland European Extension. During
his
last year of military service, he worked as a Technical Lab Assistant
in
the Avionics Laboratory at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton,
Ohio,
on remotely controlled devices, which developed into what we know today
as
the cruise missile. During this time, he attended Wright State
University.
Honorably discharged, Lucky Dog returned to school to receive an Associates Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Community College of Rhode Island, then known as Rhode Island Junior College. He graduated with honors and was voted into Who’s Who by the faculty.
His pursuit of the knowledge of life after graduating was characterized by short periods of employment in state-of-the-art high technology with Texas Instruments, Brown and Sharp, AT&T, New England Telephone, Cherry Semiconductor (a subsidiary of Cherry Electrical), CI Hayes et all while interspersed with long periods of self-indulgence into the search for the improvement of the mind and the human condition.
Two of his favorite jobs were with Cherry where he was responsible for maintaining the entire production facility for the high speed test of custom designed integrated circuit chips and with Hayes where he was a Field Service Representative for the costing, startup, training, and debugging of capital equipment at major manufacturing plants throughout the Eastern US. One job included solving the process problems at the West Point US Mint facility for the production of US proof gold coins.
Between jobs he spent one thirty month stint living aboard and single-handed sailing his forty foot cutter in Narragansett Bay and a second of equal duration in solitude on a remote private island in a primitive cabin without electricity, telephone, radio, TV, indoor plumbing or services of any kind while fishing, gardening and food gathering to feed himself, cutting wood for heat and reading the classics with only bimonthly trips by small boat to town for dairy and eggs.
After emerging from the wilderness as a student of Positive Mental Attitude, Lucky Dog met Loretta and returned to the servitude of society. He eventually found his way into his own small business. He continues a life of study and the pursuit of freelance artist. He dreams of peace in the world and if he cannot attain the Nobel Peace Prize, he will settle for working with the one who will. He is currently writing his autobiography. He met Cave Dog while Cave Dog was on a scouting hike if the Cater Moriah Range and Lucky Dog and his wife were climbing the 48 Four Thousand Footers. You can learn more about him and how he met Cave Dog by visiting his personal web site at www.nectyr.com/paul.
Honorably discharged, Lucky Dog returned to school to receive an Associates Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Community College of Rhode Island, then known as Rhode Island Junior College. He graduated with honors and was voted into Who’s Who by the faculty.
His pursuit of the knowledge of life after graduating was characterized by short periods of employment in state-of-the-art high technology with Texas Instruments, Brown and Sharp, AT&T, New England Telephone, Cherry Semiconductor (a subsidiary of Cherry Electrical), CI Hayes et all while interspersed with long periods of self-indulgence into the search for the improvement of the mind and the human condition.
Two of his favorite jobs were with Cherry where he was responsible for maintaining the entire production facility for the high speed test of custom designed integrated circuit chips and with Hayes where he was a Field Service Representative for the costing, startup, training, and debugging of capital equipment at major manufacturing plants throughout the Eastern US. One job included solving the process problems at the West Point US Mint facility for the production of US proof gold coins.
Between jobs he spent one thirty month stint living aboard and single-handed sailing his forty foot cutter in Narragansett Bay and a second of equal duration in solitude on a remote private island in a primitive cabin without electricity, telephone, radio, TV, indoor plumbing or services of any kind while fishing, gardening and food gathering to feed himself, cutting wood for heat and reading the classics with only bimonthly trips by small boat to town for dairy and eggs.
After emerging from the wilderness as a student of Positive Mental Attitude, Lucky Dog met Loretta and returned to the servitude of society. He eventually found his way into his own small business. He continues a life of study and the pursuit of freelance artist. He dreams of peace in the world and if he cannot attain the Nobel Peace Prize, he will settle for working with the one who will. He is currently writing his autobiography. He met Cave Dog while Cave Dog was on a scouting hike if the Cater Moriah Range and Lucky Dog and his wife were climbing the 48 Four Thousand Footers. You can learn more about him and how he met Cave Dog by visiting his personal web site at www.nectyr.com/paul.
During the 2003 attempt of the Long Trail
Record, Luck Dog specialized in road support using his conversion van.
Ant Dog-Anthony DiEmidio, Sixth Grade Teacher
In the intervening years, he went out west to visit a friend in Colorado for a couple weeks. His friend went home while he ended up staying for two years. While in Colorado, Ant Dog worked with Cave Dog at the Grand Butte Hotel in Mt. Crested Butte, which services the Crested Butte ski resort. They joined the Mountain Rescue Team together. The Team had trainings and meetings twice a week in Gunnison; so, Cave Dog stayed with Ant Dog during this time. While in living in Colorado, Ant Dog lived a ski bums life of rock climbing, shownshoing, hiking, snowboarding, and hot spring hopping.
After his stint as a ski bum, Ant Dog returned back east to become a middle school teacher. He has taught sixth grade at Clarendon Elementary School in Vermont. He married his long time best friend Joanne in 2000, and they now have a son, Connor, who is nearly a year old. Ant Dog enjoys living in mountain country and hopes to bring up his son as an avid hiker and snowboarder.
During the 2003 attempt of the Long Trail Record, Ant Dog gave much assistance with local knowledge of the southern region of Vermont. He also helped out with the road crossing supports.
AlpineSummit Dog-Bruce Anderson
Sugar Dog-Ann Sulzer, Eighth Grade English Teacher
Sugar Dog met Cave Dog through Silly and Chili Dogs while teaching in Pasadena. As close friends of Cave Dog from Brown, they introduced Sugar Dog and Cave Dog, though they claim they had no intentions of matchmaking. However, their introductions were successful, and Cave Dog and Sugar Dog have been as inseparable as Cave Dog's schedule will allow ever since.
During the South Beyond Insanity challenge, Sugar Dog compiled the Daily Log and helped Lady Dog maintain her sanity. She also did hiking and car support along the trail. Sugar Dog is Cave Dog's main supplier of cookies, love, and other necessities.
During the 2003 Long Trail attempt, Sugar Dog once again filled in wherever she was needed, doing both backcountry and road support. She also helping out Lady Dog with the chaos of base camp and the move of base camp from Bolton to Stratton.
Cave Dog-Ted E. Keizer, Bum
Cave Dog grew up in Coos Bay, Oregon.
He graduated from Brown University in 1994 with degrees in Geology
Biology and Political Science. While at Brown, he was elected
Student Body President. He was also voted by his class to lead
their graduation procession. After college, Cave Dog was tracked
for a life in politics when he decided that he needed to experience
life before he could write and vote on laws. So, he set out to do
his own study of society, people, and nature. Since that time he
has visited all of the states, all but two of
them multiple times. He has lived and worked in fourteen states,
Indian country, the inner city, and the woods. Hot air balloon
pilot, hotel accountant, steel construction, shoveling snow
off roofs, enumerator, moving man, high school teacher, and ambulance
driver are just a few of the means of employment he has tried.
His only restriction is that he never does the same job twice.
Being an outdoor enthusiast from an early age, he has visited 145
National Park sites and hiked and climbed in 38 states. In
addition, he did a 31 day solo in Glacier Park, Montana, under winter
conditions and paddled the 325 mile Maine Island Trail with Groove Dog.
He loves all forms of hiking from the peaks to the canyons, from
the swamps to the desert, from the woods to the tundra. Most of
all he loves the wildlife and the wildflowers.
Cave Dog has also broken six records: the Mighty Mountain Megamarathon(M 4 ) by climbing all of the Colorado 14ers in 10 days, 20 hours, 26 minutes; the Marshall Mountain Maddness Ultramarathon(M 3 ) by climbing all of the Adirondack 46 High Peaks in 3 days, 18 hours, 14 minutes; the Wild Whites Ultramarathon(W2) by climbing all of New Hampshire's 48 White Mountain Four Thousand Footers in 3 days, 17 hours, 21 minutes; the Crazed Catskills Ultramarathon by climbing all of the Catskill High Peaks(C2) in 2 days, 15 hours, 24 minutes; setting a course record for the Tennessee Barkley Marathons of 2 days, 8 hours, 57 minutes; and setting a record by climbing the Western North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee 40 South Beyond 6,000 in 4 days, 23 hours, and 28 minutes.
Cave Dog has also broken six records: the Mighty Mountain Megamarathon(M 4 ) by climbing all of the Colorado 14ers in 10 days, 20 hours, 26 minutes; the Marshall Mountain Maddness Ultramarathon(M 3 ) by climbing all of the Adirondack 46 High Peaks in 3 days, 18 hours, 14 minutes; the Wild Whites Ultramarathon(W2) by climbing all of New Hampshire's 48 White Mountain Four Thousand Footers in 3 days, 17 hours, 21 minutes; the Crazed Catskills Ultramarathon by climbing all of the Catskill High Peaks(C2) in 2 days, 15 hours, 24 minutes; setting a course record for the Tennessee Barkley Marathons of 2 days, 8 hours, 57 minutes; and setting a record by climbing the Western North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee 40 South Beyond 6,000 in 4 days, 23 hours, and 28 minutes.
During The 2003 Long Trail Record challenge, Cave Dog hiked, and that is all.
The Dog Pound-Base Camp, Bolton Valley Resort
The Dog Pound 2-Southern Outpost, Stratton Mountain Resort