MEDIA REVIEW: ALL ALASKA SWEEPSTAKES, THE 2008 CENTENNIAL RACE
‘All Alaska Sweepstakes, The 2008 Centennial Race’by Mark and Helen Hegener, photography by Jan DeNapoliAvailable at: www.northernlightmedia.com“This book is dedicated to the hardworking volunteers who made the 2008 Centennial Running of the All Alaska Sweepstakes a reality. They were there when it counted for the mushers, for the dogs, for…
ARCTIC ALPS CUP – A World Premier in Sled Dog Racing!
The two greatest European sleddogs races, the Finnmarkslopet in Norway and La Grande Odyssée Savoie Mont Blanc in France have together decided to create a new championship in this growing sport: the Arctic Alps Cup.The musher (sled-driver), who wins the Arctic Alps Cup, will be the one who would have…
RONDY WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS ANNOUNCES HIGHEST SPRINT RACING PURSE EVER!
Greater Anchorage Inc (GAI) and Alaskan Sled Dog & Racing Association (ASDRA) announce a guaranteed purse of $80,000 to be paid on overall places for the 2010 World Championship Sled Dog Races. In addition, a “Day Money Purse” will be added and seeded with $1,000 from Tudor Road Bingo. Additional…
2011 Beargrease will host Jeff King, Iditarod Champion at the Annual Beargrease Gala Dinner
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Media Contact: Linda Nervick August 25, 2010 218 310-6838 cell lindanervick@gmail.com 2011 Beargrease will host Jeff King, Iditarod Champion at the Annual Beargrease Gala Dinner (Duluth, MN) The John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon is honored to host Jeff King, Iditarod Champion as the guest speaker at the…
IPSSSDR Fills Roster with 25 Teams Including Distance Mushing Champs
Wyoming sled dog race closes registration and begins wait list The International Pedigree Stage Stop Sled Dog Race (IPSSSDR) has filled its roster with 25 teams registered for the upcoming January 28 – February 5, 2011, event, announced Race Director Frank Teasley. Registration for the event is now closed and…
GRAVEYARD OF DREAMS
The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race has not been particularly kind to Scott White, a musher from the wine country of Woodinville, Washington. White was forced to quit the 2007 Iditarod after seriously frostbiting his fingers in a Rainy Pass blizzard. He refused to give up on his dream, however,…
DOG YARD DISASTER PREPAREDNESS
By Jodi Bailey Note: This article appeared in our print magazine in 2010. Summer brings forest fires in Interior Alaska, and smoky days are reported on the weather along with rain and temperature. You can not help but be aware of them and where they are as summer progresses. But that…
CANINE EXERCISE TREADMILLS: ALBERTA
Alberta Tour and Race Team TreadmillAt 54 feet long, is this the world’s longest canine training device?Rich Bittner, a musher for over 20 years, owns Howling Dog Tours based in Canmore, Alberta, Canada. As well as doing day tours up to 50km per day, the Howling Dog Tours race team…
CANINE EXERCISE TREADMILLS: NEW HAMPSHIRE
New Hampshire Mushers Construct Portable Canine Treadmill“When things are going well on a long training run, there’s plenty of time to think while standing on the runners.”From such times are born great—and arguably somewhat crazy—notions.Take Mitch Ingerson, for example. The owner of Nevahome Kennels in Jefferson, New Hampshire, has been…
A ROOKIE KENNEL’S COMPARISON OF ULTRA-MARATHON SLED DOG RACES
Any way you look at it, 1000 miles is daunting.In the world of distance mushing, a 1,000-mile race tends to be the end goal: the thing to strive for, train for, and obsess about. It may build you up, it might destroy you, but it will definitely change you.Rookies are…