New England Sled Dog Races At Appleton Farms To Be Held Feb 2 & 3
The New England Sled Dog Races will be held on February 2nd & 3rd at Appleton Farms in Hamilton, and will include a winter festival with vendors, games, music and more!Two years ago, sled dog racing came back to the NoBo region, and the competition has grown each year. This…
Robillard, Portalatin Take First in Eagle Lake Sled Dog Races
The cold weather of last week broke on Saturday, Jan. 19, just in time for the Irving Woodlands Eagle Lake 100 and Mad Bomber Eagle Lake 30 sled dog races in Eagle Lake. Twenty-one mushers and their teams took to the northern Maine woods, as hundreds of spectators came out…
Winter Dog Race Returns To Chemult
Saturday marked the first day of the 19th Annual Chemult Sled Dog Races. Mushers followed packs of eight, six and four dogs on sleds while skiers were tugged by one or two dogs for the Skijor event.As the temperature rose, some in the crowd funneled the dogs out of the…
Food Drop Brings Relief To Yukon Quest Mushers
The Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race is well-known for its grueling trail conditions, but one of the most stressful days for many mushers comes two weeks before it even begins.Saturday was food drop day for the 26 competitors in the Whitehorse-to-Fairbanks race, when weeks or even months of planning…
Dogsled Racing Across A Frozen Ocean
HOW DO YOU see what the mushers see? You mush. Turn in an application to the Beringia, a dogsled race stretching 685 miles over Russia’s easternmost tundra. In March, make your way to the village of Esso, in the remote Kamchatka Peninsula, nearly 5,000 miles from Moscow. Meet your competitors;…
Sled Dog Racers Get Ready for Siskiyou Competition Feb. 9-10
Barbara Schaefer of Grass Valley knows all about the highs and lows of sled dog racing. She’s been running dogs for a quarter century, and racing them for 16 years.It may sound funny now, but it wasn’t at the time, when her 12-dog team got tangled around a tree while…
Dog Sledding With Shamans
Standing on the back of a sled, the dog team driver urged a pack of six Huskies around a corner. “To the right, to the right!” he yelled, avoiding a topple as the dogs rounded the curve just in time. Nearby, a woman in animal skins beat time as she…
Jacksonville Beach Doctor Among Two Americans Dog Sledding The Arctic
Larry Daugherty has wanted to race a dog sled in the deep snow of the Arctic since he was 10.So the Mayo Clinic oncology doctor, now 37, filled that desire with mountain climbing and other wintertime sports until he chanced upon a tiny ad from European cold-weather gear maker Fjällräven.Now…
Older and Faster, 56-Year-Old Jeff King Pockets Another Kusko Title
Like a fine wine that improves with age, 56-year-old Jeff King added another big victory to a resume studded with them on Sunday.King, 56, of Denali Park, snatched his record ninth victory in the Kuskokwim 300 sled-dog race that starts and ends in the southwest Alaska city of Bethel, crossing…
Mentors help guide the pack for this year’s Chemult Sled Dog Races
“They are my pets, my family, my passion, my power,” said Allyson Griffie, a musher participating with her dogs in this weekend’s Chemult Sled Dog Races.Griffie started rescuing Siberian huskies with her husband 30 years ago, and after some research she discovered urban mushing. In 2005, Griffie got a scooter…