Normand Casavant Takes First Place in River Runner 100
Normand Casavant had a secret weapon in this year’s River Runner 100 Dog Sled and Skijoring Race.The duck dance.Casavant, who won the race with a time of 9 hours and 38 minutes, employed the traditional dance along on the Takhini River when temperatures dropped well below minus 30 Celsius.Read more…
Winterfest Returns This Weekend
Postponed from its original date of Jan. 14 and 15 due to lack of snow, the Kalkaska Winterfest returns for its 47th year this weekend.While the status of the Midwest International Sled Dog Race remains uncertain, Winterfest Organizer Jim Collins said the outlook is positive for the race to take…
Family Has Plenty of Pull
If you think this was a bad year for snowmobilers, consider how trying this season was for those who dig dog sledding.Ian MacKenzie, his wife Nancy, and daughter, Aurora, live on a 160-acre property on Rock Lake in Plummer Additional Township, east of Sault Ste. Marie, and are the owners…
No Kennel Cough Shot? No Race.
For the first time, Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race officials are requiring all dogs in the race to be vaccinated for kennel cough.Symptoms of the bug, a highly infectious upper respiratory infection, include a dry honking cough, gagging and retching. In serious cases, the illness can lead to pneumonia and…
Nunavut-Produced Series Brings Dog Sled Race To Life
Captured on film, the starting line of the 2010 Nunavut Quest race is a frenzy of cheering fans, barking dogs and the scenic backdrop of Pond Inlet.If you missed the event — or any Nunavut Quest race for that matter — Piksuk Media Inc. will bring the action to you…
Iditarod 2012: 5 Things To Know About ‘The Last Great Race on Earth’
Saturday, March 4 marks the start of the Iditarod 2012 when mushers from around the world will embark on a 1,150-mile trail of some of the roughest, most beautiful terrain Mother Nature has to offer. The Iditarod dog sled race will follow the Northern Route (map) this year, starting in…
Iditarod Wish Granted To Texan Boy
Make-A-Wish Foundation® partners with Donlin Gold to grantAlaska Iditarod experience to Texan boy WHO & WHAT: Nathan is a nine-year-old boy who is living with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. Despite his medical condition, Nathan has a true love for sports, animals, and spending time with his friends and family. However, most…
Northwood ABC 3rd, 4th, 5th Graders Mush To Millenium
Anchorage, Alaska – Monday, February 27, 2012 – In partnership with the Millennium Hotel, Northwood ABC 3rd, 4th and 5th graders will be “Mushing to the Millennium.” School officials would like to cordially invite parents, friends and neighbors to line the street on the Spenard end of Aspen Drive, and…
Iditarod Champion Trains His Dogs In Isolation
Try training for it 33 miles north of the Arctic Circle. That’s where John Baker lives, in Kotzebue, Alaska, where February’s average high temperature is 3 degrees and daylight hours dwindle to zero in December, when he trains his dogs by headlamp.Baker, 49, lives the farthest north of all 66…
Kaneland Sixth Grader Gets To Ride In Iditarod
Sixth grader Olivia Goodenough has dreamed of riding with sled dogs in the Iditarod Race through the Alaskan wilderness. Now, her dream of being on the sled, behind a team of barking dogs eager to run the rugged historic trail is about to become a reality.“I’ll probably be thinking how…