Night is one of the best times to go mushing with a team of sled dogs.

This is the view of Alaskan musher Bud Weise, who has discussed his love of the sport with the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner.

He revealed he became involved in mushing when he moved to Tanana, Alaska from North Dakota when he was 20 years old.

Although he had learned many rural skills in his home state, Alaska presented a new set of challenges.

Mr Weise said he soon sorted himself out a sled dog team when he arrived in Tanana.

With the guidance of new friends he met in the town, he slowly learned the ropes of the sport.

"It was just fantastic," he said, recounting moonlit trips in the Alaskan wilderness with his sled dogs.

"My dogs didn’t want to run hard. My leader just kept backing into them to hold them slower," Mr Weise added.

Alaska is the home of the mushing world’s two biggest events – February’s Yukon Quest and the Iditarod, which is run every March.