Eagle Cap Sled Dog Race News
Halfway at HalfwayCome spend a day with the dogs in Halfway, Oregon. On Friday, January 18th from 6 am to noon the 4th annual Eagle Cap Sled Dog Race will hold the race layover in Halfway’s Bigalow Field. Noted as one of the ‘toughest race in the Northwest’, the dogs…
Two Rivers Dog Mushers to Run Mid-Distance Races on Jan. 19th
Though it is short notice, we have Great News Everyone!! Two Rivers Dog Mushers will be putting on a 100 mile class in conjunction with the 32 mile Hamburger Run on Jan. 19, 2008. So, gear up those doggies, ready those sleds and come out to run the Make-up Solstice…
Ellis Retires Su-Valley Championship trophy
First-day leader Egil Ellis held onto the lead Sunday to win the 10.5-miile open class at the Su Valley Championship in Montana Creek. Ellis used a 16-dog team to beat out Bill Kornmuller’s 18-dog team by 1 minute, 40 seconds after two trips around the 10.5-mile open course. After winning…
Ryan Redington Wins Knik 200, Anderson 2nd
Valley musher wins Knik 200By MATT TUNSETHFrontiersmanPublished on Monday, January 7, 2008 10:54 PM AKSTKNIK — Wasilla’s Ryan Redington grabbed the lead and never looked back, racing home in record fashion to win his second Knik 200 Joe Redington Sr. Memorial Sled Dog Race Sunday morning.A grandson of the man…
THE NORWAY WAY: JOE RUNYAN VISITS MUSHING KENNELS IN NORWAY
Mushers of Norway have a long tradition of entertaining their friends from North America at their annual September gathering and symposium. The guest list over the years includes luminaries Susan Butcher, George Attla, Rick Swenson, Jeff King, Doug Swingley, et al. This year my daughter and I were the lucky…
OTHER LIVES: BRITTEN WALKER
There are a few occupations in the world in which getting killed could stand directly in the way of cashing your next pay check. Soldiers in Iraq qualify as one such job. A soldier in Iraq looking for roadside land mines, or rooting out insurgents—a seemingly benign word for someone…
MUSHERS LIVING HAPPILY EVER AFTER OR NOT
There’s no question it takes a lot to make a marriage work. But add huskies or hounds into the equation and the solution, a long and happy marriage, gets a lot more difficult.Many a husband-and-wife duo has parted ways over sled dogs, whether it’s the huge expense or a younger,…
TOURISM. THE KNIGHT IN SHINING ARMOR FOR MUSHERS?
Ask the average person what he or she knows about the sport of mushing and the misconceptions you’ll hear will last for as long as you are willing to listen.This phenomenon stems partly from how the sport is portrayed in books and movies and partly from the idea that most…
ROBERT SORLIE, SIGRID EKRAN OF TEAM NORWAY
IDITAROD CHAMPION: ROBERT SORLIERobert was recently the Keynote speaker at an international symposium in Fairbanks, Alaska coinciding with the naming ceremony of Ingstad Mountain. We had a chance to sit down and ask him about the Team Norway strategy, and the logistics of taking the team to Alaska each year.MM:…
HARNESS ROUND-UP: PART 2
In this second installment we present to you a few more harness designs, including some specialty harnesses, as well as two that were directly developed by Iditarod winners. Each harness maker and designer has specific goals in mind when creating their product. It is important to talk to them and…