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…
Jeff King Wins Kobuk 440 Sled Dog Race
Jeff King of Denali Park won the Kobuk 440 sled dog race early this morning in Kotzebue.The race, which began April 11 in Kotzebue, is run entirely above the Arctic Circle and is notorious for its wildly unpredictable weather. The course winds through the Northwest Alaska communities of Noorvik, Kiana,…
Meet Ayla: Our Modern-Day Togo
TogoRun has a winner, and her name is Ayla.If you recall, in March we wrote about a contest for Alaskans about what makes your dog outstanding. The essay contest was sponsored by TogoRun, a New York-based health and wellness communications agency that took the name of the famed sled dog…
Learning To Dog Sled In Bavaria, Germany
WE WERE ALL getting along just fine. Gunda (my alpha leader), Xare (her co-pilot), Stangl (an amorous male) and Zenzi (the blonde he kept trying to mount) were as solid as a dog sled team gets. We’d only met three hours earlier, but now we were gliding beautifully over the…
Dan Heilbrunn Wins The Isaac Simon Memorial Sled Dog Race
An Inuvik sledder took first place in the Isaac Simon Memorial dog sled race April 8. Winner Dan Heilbrunn, a teacher at East Three, is one of a handful of local mushers.The race, slated to be a traditional-style toboggan run, was converted to an open-class race April 7 following the…
Weather Extremes Keep Mushers Guessing In Alaska’s Kobuk 440
Even though it might be spring across much of Alaska, the supremely winter sport of dog mushing is still going strong on the Northwest coast.On Thursday, 18 mushers will take off from Kotzebue in a mass start toward Noorvik and then Kiana, the first checkpoints on the 440-mile race that…
Mitch Seavey: Staying With It
After winning his first Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in 2004, Mitch Seavey spent nine years trying to get his second title, all the time thinking that if he ever reached the burled arch in Nome first again “that’d be it.” That he’d hang up the sled and retire from…