CANADIAN CHALLENGE SLED DOG RACE HAS POTENTIAL $25,000 PURSE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJanuary 12, 2010Only 28 days to race start, and the interest is building. We have six entries to date, including one junior musher, but the phone calls are coming in and we expect many more this week. The lack of snow has made it hard to train, and…
JEFF KING DONATES $50,000 TO IDITAROD SLED DOG RACE
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THE PHYSICS AND PHYSIOLOGY OF STAYING WARM
With about twenty-five years of winter skiing, hiking, and climbing, I thought I had a pretty good handle on how to keep warm. Yet, the first few years I dog sledded distances longer than a couple of miles, I’d come back shivering.As I became a more experienced musher, the runs…
ANCHORAGE’S FUR RONDY CELEBRATES 75TH ANNIVERSARY YEAR
“The Rondy World Championship Sled Dog Race is the cornerstone and unique identifying event of the Anchorage Fur Rendezvous. Where else in the world do they close down major streets downtown, cover them with snow, and run a sled dog race for three days?” says Susan Duck, Rondy’s executive director….
SUPERDOGS: MARTIN BUSER
Recently I had the good fortune to visit with Martin at his kennel in Big lake. It was a frosty early fall day, and Martin was working on a project building a combination dog barn/indoor playroom, and indoor exercise facility. I’ve been wanting to showcase Martin’s canine athletes for some…
1ST ANNUAL MUSHING HISTORY CONFERENCE: ANCHORAGE, ALASKA 2009
“History is not about the out-of-date or irrelevant,” says Tim White, co-organizer of the first Mushing History Conference held in Anchorage and Wasilla in November, 2009. He reminds us that, “It was from their interest in history that Dorothy Page and Joe Redington Sr. came together to eventually create the…
AN INTERVIEW WITH NEW HAMPSHIRE’S KEITH F. BRYAR II
When you grow up in the shadow of New England mushing legends and personalities like MacDonald, Moulton, Molburg and Lombard not to mention parents Jean and Keith Sr. it leaves an impression.GS: Your parents were very accomplished mushers. When did they become involved with sled dogs. ?KB: …They met in…
BURKE MOUNTAIN SLED DOG DASH
Dedicated Volunteers, and Passionate Organizers Pull Together to Host RaceThe echo of Marian Wafer’s mantra “BELIEVE” was being swept from my mind by the sound of the powerful wind rattling the exterior of the building. As midnight neared, the thermometer outside of my window hovered at 40ºF and was barely…
IDITAROD PURSE DOWN BY $400,000 FROM 2008
Bad economy and loss of media and sponsor partners has forced the Iditarod Trail Committee to cut costs. Read the full story here: http://www.adn.com/iditarod/2010/story/1044486.html
IDITAROD MUSHERS TO BE TESTED FOR DRUG USE DURING RACE
The Iditarod Trail Committee will begin randomly testing mushers during this year’s race for drug use. Some mushers are for this rule, some are adamantly against it. Read full story here:http://www.newsminer.com/pages/full_story/push?article-Drug+testing+planned+for+Iditarod+mushers%20&id=5011778-Drug+testing+planned+for+Iditarod+mushers&instance=home_lead_story