Mitch Seavey Visits Seward Community Library
Mitch Seavey is looking forward to being the oldest musher to win the Iditarod sled dog race next year, beating his own record from his win this year. However, after the blur of the post-race media tour and a brief vacation, things are finally slowing down. Mitch took some time…
Grantland: Out in the Great Alone
Out in the Great Alone by Brian PhillipsThe Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race pushes participants to the brink on an unforgiving trek to the end of the world. And, as one writer who tracked the race by air discovers, that is exactly the point.Read more here: http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/9175394/out-great-alone
Travis Beals: Coming Together
When Travis Beals was in elementary school he would dream about the Iditarod as the current standings were read aloud before the day’s lessons began.Often Beals would think about the arctic adventures of Martin Buser and his team of sled dogs.To the Seward youngster, Buser was “the man.”A decade and…
Taking on the World’s Toughest Sled Dog Race
AN intrepid adventurer battled temperatures of minus 60C and slept with an axe at his side to fend off wolves as he completed the world’s toughest dog sled race.Rob Cooke, a former Upton-upon-Severn Primary and Hanley Castle High School pupil who now lives in Canada, was pushed to the limits…
Check out Philip Sangla from France Bikejoring with his Dogs!
Check out Philip Sangla from France Bikejoring with his Dogs!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tAJRxx2UqY&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Two-Time Iditarod Champion Mitch Seavey Tells His Tales of the Iditarod Trail
Dean Osmar was the first dog musher from the Kenai Peninsula to ever win “The Last Great Race” in 1984 and it would be twenty years before another Peninsula musher, Mitch Seavey would be the first through the arches in Nome to claim an Iditarod Championship. The son of musher…
John Perry Talks Competing at Sleddog World Championships
Fresh off of his sixth place finish at the 2013 International Federation of Sleddog Sports (IFSS) World Championships, in North Pole, Alaska, Sterling resident John Perry, spoke to the Rotary Club Wednesday, about the race this year and why he does it.Before this year, Perry won the gold medal in…
Local Musher to Appear on National Geographic Show
Sled dog racer Brent Sass will be featured with several other mushers, mountaineers and adventurous Alaskans on a National Geographic Channel series, “Ultimate Survival Alaska.”The show premieres May 12 and will document the efforts by eight Alaska men to win 10 different cross-country races.Read more here: http://www.newsminer.com/news/local_news/local-musher-to-appear-on-national-geographic-show/article_addb30a4-a7fc-11e2-a9fd-0019bb30f31a.html
Lily Stewart: Ipswich Teen and Sled Dogs Win Big
Competing in the International Federation of Sleddog Sports Winter Worl Championships last month, Ipswich High sophomore Lily Stewart and her four dogs — Grinder, Chess, KT, and Endo — went toe-to-toe with the world’s best female mushers in a free-for-all that had all the makings of a canine-powered demolition derby…
Mushing School: D/G Homeschool Students
Going to a Mushing School had everyone excited, and the fact that it was a beautiful March day made it that much better. As three van fulls of Delta/Greely Homeschool students made their way to Three Dog Night Kennels in Salcha, the chatter about dog mushing was almost non-stop. The…