At 34, Marine Baudoin, a musher in Bois d'Amont (Jura), is fighting to find a new home and save her pack of 28 huskies. While her home is about to be sold, she hopes to find a new place to continue her passion and keep her business alive.
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Marine Baudoin is 34 years old. For eight years, with her pack of 28 huskies, she has lived in Bois d'Amont (Jura). But today, the musheuse (person who drives a sled pulled by dogs) faces a situation she would have preferred never to experience. In ten months, she will no longer have a roof over her head, her rental lease is expiring and the property is put up for sale. While the space is ideal, financially, it is out of Marine's budget. Despite her searches, nothing works, the young woman has still not found the right shoe for her.
However, for nothing in the world, she doesn't want to leave the station. “If I leave the Jura, I lose everything I haveshe argues, her throat tight. It's the story of a lifetime”. Marine returns to the beginning of this story. 23 years ago, his dad gave in and gave him his first husky. Then the second. At 17, she has 12 dogs. “23 years of passion, to be stuck today”, she laments.
Today, after having combed through all the possibilities, she still hopes to find an agricultural plot of 3,000 to 5,000 m², virgin or with an old building, but in any case, with access to water and 'electricity. All at least a hundred meters from homes and within a radius of around fifteen kilometers from the station. In this distress, the musheuse still finds hope and refuses to give up. “I have a sustainable business, a sustainable breeding… I want to pretend to be at home. Being on the street with 30 dogs is unthinkable”.
Marine is aware that her profession and her pack still suffer from a bad image left by the first mushers. “The Jura is nevertheless a pioneering region in sled dog tourism, but we pay the price for mushers who were not correct”, she insists. But she assures her, Marine has never had a problem. “A pack of huskies is not a pack of hunting dogs that spends its day barking. It doesn't make any noise and I don't have any neighborhood problems. If things didn't go well with my neighbors, I wouldn't have lived here eight years.”.
Marine Baudouin, musher in Bois d'Amont (Jura), and her pack of huskies are looking for a new home.
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© Marine Baudouin
In this situation, Marine also thinks of those who have not let her down since her beginnings. Among her clients, those who have supported her since her internship, 14 years ago. “If I had to leave, leave this clientele who didn't let me go… It pisses me off. And if I decide not to let go of everything, it's also because they are there. I can't let them down”. In this difficult situation which she hopes will be temporary, Marine cannot help but think of some of her colleagues and raise the difficulties that mushers encounter.
To celebrate the tenth anniversary of her business, Marine wholeheartedly hopes to find accommodation that can accommodate her and her pack, and allow her to continue her activity.
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