Urban Mushing & The Great Wall of Crest
Sam McBride and Team Brave Heart
The Team Brave Heart trailer parked at Crest
When the “Great Wall of Crest” came down on September 26th, 100 Crest Foods employees were able to take home plywood and 2 X 6’s that formed the temporary wall at the Warehouse put in place after the April 9th torna- do. While employees likely used it for various miscellaneous projects around their homes, it wasn’t until we saw Sam McBride’s(Ingredient C-shift) husky trailer in the Crest parking lot this March that we wondered: where did the Great Wall of Crest go? This isn’t just any dog trailer. Made from those 2 X 6’s and old pallets collected over time from Crest Foods, Sam’s wife Jordan (who learned everything she knows about carpentry from her late father, Douglas Golter) drew out the blueprints and got to work constructing a trailer that would hold all 6 of the family Huskies and all the equipment necessary for “Urban Mushing”. Between Jordan working on it almost everyday and Sam helping when needed, the trailer was finished in early November 2015. It all first started back in Wheaton where a young Sam and Jordan were first courting each other, when they decided to take a BIG step in their relationship and adopt their first dog together. They went to the DuPage Animal Control where they both fell in love with an Alaskan Husky named Nina. After tying the knot they moved from Northern IL to Southern IL to a small town called Makanda (population 450) where Sam and Jordan adopted 2 more dogs. One named Nookie who was a dainty Siberian Husky female and the second one a female named Nova who’s a Husky/Black Lab mix. The last Husky that they adopted in Southern IL was a male Husky that was hitch hiking on the side of the road one afternoon while Sam and Jordan were out driving with their three girl Huskies. He was very happy to get into a pickup truck full of Husky girls to fawn over him while Sam and Jordan searched for his owners. They did find his owner (Scott) and returned Buddy (aka Shilo) to him, only to have him call them back a few weeks later asking if they would be willing to adopt Shilo. Scott worked long hours as a forest firefighter and sometimes was gone for months during heavy fire seasons and Shilo was left to be taken care of by a friend until he got back. Scott didn’t think that this was fair to Shilo and he noticed how happy he was with Sam and Jordan’s Huskies, so of course they said yes! Now that they had 4 huskies Sam and Jordan started training their pups to pull a sled, there was only one problem
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