Chinook Did You Know?

• The Chinook has been assigned the Working Group designation.
• The Chinook has been recorded in the Foundation Stock Service since 2001.
• Chinook is the Inuit word for warm winter winds.
• The Chinook is one of a few dog breeds created in America.
• The Chinook Breed was developed by Polar Explorer Arthur Treadwell Walden during the early 1900�s on his farm in Wanalancet New Hampshire.
• A Chinook sled dog team was the first team of dogs to the summit of Mt. Washington, NH in 1925.
• In 1927 Arthur Walden, along with 16 of his male Chinooks, went with Admiral Richard Byrd’s first expedition to Antarctica. The Chinook dogs were used to haul the expedition freighting sleds.
• In 1941, Perry Greene and his team of Chinooks made a 502 mile journey in 90 hours, the longest sled dog trek made within the US at that the time.
• In 1965, the Guinness Book of World Records recorded the Chinook for the first of three times as the rarest dog, with only 125 dogs alive.
• In 1966, Boeing Helicopters-Vetrol division obtained a Chinook named Charger as a mascot, and sent Charger to the 228th base at An Khe, South Viet Nam. Charger never made it back.
• In 1981, only 28 Chinooks remained, and only 11 of these were used in breeding.