Old Crow 'rolling out the red carpet' for ice cream man on a dog sled

Call him the ice cream musher.

Brian Wilmshurst, who operates the Klondyke Cream &Candy shop in Dawson City, Yukon, is setting off this week to deliver some of his sweet treats north of the Arctic Circle to the small fly-in community of Old Crow.

And he's making the long distance trip by dog sled.

"I have a bunch of extra ice cream on hand, so what better place to get rid of it [than] up in Old Crow?Kids up there don't get the amenities like we do down south here," Wilmshurstsaid.

Wilmshurstis an experienced musher, who's competed in both the Yukon Quest and the Iditarod. He didn't race this year, though, so he was looking for an excuse to get out with his dogs.

"It's always been a dream of mine to go see Old Crow.I haven't been up there before, so maybe I'll do it in style, on the back of a dog sled," he said.

"There's so much beautiful land out here in the Yukon.I try to see as much of it as I can."

Wilmshurst plans to start at Eagle Plainson the DempsterHighway, which is roughly200 kilometres from Old Crow.

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'Follow the frozen water'

Wilmshurst hasphoned around, asking people for tips to plan his route, butfigureshe'll mostly just "follow the frozen water."

"I guess they have GPS and all that these days, but I'm not the greatest with electronics. So Ithink we'll just try to figure it out."

Wilmshurst won't be travelling alone, either other mushing friends will join him, and he said the group keeps getting bigger and bigger.

"You get a bunch of dog mushers together, it could get a little competitive," he joked.

Up in Old Crow, people are already offering them places to sleepand keeptheir dogs. They're "rolling out the red carpet for us," he said.

His goal is to leave Eagle Plains on Wednesdayand arrive in Old Crow for Easter with aload of frozen confections, still frozen.

"I'm hoping that the weather stays cool, so that it makes it.I am a little worried about it warming up a little too quickly."

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