About us

My name is Samy. I discovered sleddog in 2011, almost by chance. Shortly before Christmas, Luca, who ran a sleddog centre, called me because the person working with him had fallen ill and he needed help. I was honest from the beginning: I told him I knew very little about dogs. He told me to come anyway.

Until then I had done many different jobs: removals, construction work, painting and operating plastic-printing machinery. I worked, but I had not yet found my path. I had never experienced the feeling of getting up in the morning not only for a wage, but because I truly wanted to do what was waiting for me.

That job was there waiting for me, even though I had never looked for it.

The Siberian Huskies, the snow, nature and the people: I understood almost immediately what I wanted to do “when I grew up”, although I was already 27.

Luca saw how much I enjoyed it and let me finish the season with them even after the person I was replacing returned. From then on, I spent five seasons working with sled dogs.

During those years I turned down several permanent jobs. Georgeta was understandably worried: we could not build our future on only four months of work a year. But I had found what I wanted to do and did not want a job that would prevent me from returning to the dogs every winter.

During those seasons I learned to understand the Siberian Husky, team management, safety rules and the relationship with people during excursions. Those were the years in which I laid the foundations for everything that came later.

In 2016 an opportunity came along that I could not let pass. Luciano, who worked with Luca using his own dogs and equipment, had decided to stop because age made it increasingly difficult to continue. I offered to buy the dogs and equipment.

For the first time, I would have the chance to build my own path and, above all, to care for a team that was truly made up of our dogs.

Luca helped me greatly during this transition, both technically and practically. I will always be grateful to him for introducing me to this world, for everything he taught me and for supporting me when I decided to begin my own journey.

From that moment, however, this was no longer only my story. It became ours.

Georgeta and I left Turin and moved to the province of Cuneo, where we found a rented house isolated enough for us and the dogs without causing problems for the neighbours. There was plenty of land, but the house had been empty for eleven years and was in poor condition.

For one month we worked seven days a week to make it habitable and build a first, very simple area for the dogs.

Georgeta left her job in Turin. While I worked during the summer, she cared for the dogs every day: preparing their food, brushing them, looking after mothers and puppies, introducing young dogs to the harness and taking them dog trekking so they could gradually learn to pull.

It was not only about caring for them. It meant observing their growth, knowing their character, guiding them through their first experiences and building the trust that would later become essential on the snow.

That was our balance in the early years. Today we share the care of the dogs, the preparation of the young dogs and the daily work with the pack. Georgeta also manages much of Siberiana’s organisation: she answers calls and emails, keeps in touch with guests and looks after social communication.

Siberiana was built every day by both of us. Our life began to revolve completely around the dogs, their needs and the seasons.

Many years have passed since then, and almost everything has changed.

We have always reinvested the season’s earnings to improve the dogs’ lives and make our work safer and more professional: a suitable facility that complies with the rules, more modern equipment, a better trail and everything that could help us grow without losing sight of the pack’s wellbeing.

It has not been an easy journey.

The Covid period was particularly hard. We had to stop one season a month early, and during the following season we did not work for a single day. There were twenty dogs and the two of us, with only one income.

Even then, the dogs continued to need the same care as on every other day. Stopping or postponing was never an option.

Today our reality is very different. We have a better facility, more experience and are finally beginning to see the rewards for which we have worked so hard.

We do not forget the people who helped us reach this point. We want to thank Luca, the Municipality of Valtournenche and the people of Cervinia who welcomed and supported us throughout this journey.

For several years we worked in Cervinia in collaboration with The Husky Experience. It was an important collaboration, always based on mutual respect, which allowed us to grow and make our work known.

Over time, however, we felt an increasingly strong need to tell our story in our own voice and build an identity that fully represented our way of living with the dogs and sleddog.

During the 2025–2026 season we presented ourselves for the first time under the name Siberiana Husky Sleddog.

The name is new, but what it represents goes back much further: to discovering sleddog in 2011, choosing to build our own project in 2016 and all the years spent growing alongside our dogs.

Siberiana is not the beginning of our story. It is the moment when that story finally found its name.