13 Teams Sign Up for 2014 Quest
Thirteen teams signed up for the Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race on Saturday, the first day of signups for the 2014 edition of the 1,000-mile event.2013 champion Allen Moore, of Two Rivers, was among the field of nine Americans — all from Alaska — and four Canadians making up…
Ann Bancroft: Wander Woman
Sitting on the porch of her vintage farmhouse that overlooks the St. Croix River, Ann Bancroft appeared more homebody than polar explorer the other day.Now 57 — fully 27 years after she became the first woman to reach the North Pole by dog sled — Bancroft, effusive and upbeat on…
Jonrowe Will Join Mushers Hall of Fame
Iditarod fan favorite and perennial contender DeeDee Jonrowe will be inducted into the Mushers’ Hall of Fame next Sunday at the Knik Museum.The July 21 ceremony will be part of the museum’s annual potluck picnic.Jonrowe, who lives in Willow, recorded her 16th top-10 finish in this year’s Iditarod. She has…
Discovery News: Dogs With American Roots Revealed
Alaskan breeds — such as Inuit sled dogs, the Eskimo dog and the Greenland dog — are the only canines with actual American roots, according to DNA analysis. All of these pooches hail from the 49th state and nearby areas, according to the study, published in the latest Proceedings of…
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…