Date archives: April 27, 2011

Overcoming sub-zero temperatures, high winds and unfavorable conditions on the arctic ice, on April 23rd Wendy Booker became the first person with MS to stand at the North Pole.Read more about Wendy’s adventures here:http://www.wendybooker.net/?cat=210

The Native Youth Olympics are back this year bigger and better than ever.The 41st annual event runs Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the Dena’ina Center in Anchorage with the usual schedule of traditional games such as the one-foot high kick, wrist carry and Eskimo stick pull in addition to new…

With 70,000 students tethered to them through the Internet, four northern Minnesota adventurers recently completed a 900-mile dogsled trip in Canada’s Northwest Territories.Dave and Amy Freeman of Grand Marais, along with Van Conrad and Ellen Root of Ely, traveled from Norman Wells on the Mackenzie River to Fort Resolution on…

Ohio can be a strange incubator. Ulysses S. Grant, the son of a tanner, won the Civil War and became president. John Glenn, the son of a plumber, was the first American to orbit the Earth. Bob Knight, the son of a railroad man, grew up to throw a chair…

When 23-year-old Pete Kaiser mushed out of the Kotzebue fog Sunday morning to capture the Kobuk 440 sled dog race, his victory in mushing’s season finale marked a coronation as much as a conclusion.Read more here:http://www.adn.com/2011/04/18/1816784/kaisers-kobuk-win-caps-winter.html

Patxi Azpiazu was the driver of the sport in the north of Spain, and he and a group of friends and family organized the first edition. Following the success it was decided to create the club canicross OARSOALDEAN TXAKURKROSA Patxi chaired Azpiazu, and under the club have continued to organize…

Tabitha Binder was a second-grader at Cedar Heights Elementary School in Woodward when she first heard the story about the Iditarod. She listened in part because she loved dogs.In her first childhood, Binder had a Labrador and a Dalmatian.This past winter, now residing in Fairbanks, she found herself living out…

Pete Kaiser, 23, low-key and part-Yup’ik, emerged from the fog Sunday morning near Kotzebue to win the Kobuk 440.Nine dogs pulled him in at 9:50 a.m. to give him his first mid-distance triumph.Read more here:http://www.thearcticsounder.com/article/1115kaiser_of_bethel_wins_kobuk_440

The first mushers are just rolling through the darkness and arriving into Ambler for the second time in this year’s Kobuk 440.First to the village was Pete Kaiser at 3:33 a.m., breaking trail for the first time in the race but still lagging an hour in rest time behind Ken…

Fairbanks musher Ken Anderson pulled into Ambler at 1:37 p.m. Friday, leading the season-ending Kobuk 440 sled dog race.Not far behind was a racer little known to mushing fans. But some of Cynthia Barrand’s 12 dogs have plenty of star power.A 35-year-old handler for Iditarod champion and record holder John…