Sled Dog Races Are Successful After Snow Blankets The Area
The fifth annual Rodeo Run Sled Dog Races were chalked up as a success after some much needed snow came just days before the start of the event last Friday. A total of 45 teams from as far away as Missouri came to compete in the three-day event, which began…
Yukon Quest Opens Art Contest For Alaska Students Along The Trail
Thirty years ago, when the Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race was in its infancy, organizers turned to a vast pool of local talent for inaugural artwork and logos used in the race: schoolchildren.Its first logo, which combined the flags of Alaska and the Yukon Territory, was chosen out of…
Cook County Boasts New Sled Dog Race
From transporting voyageurs centuries ago to delivering mail up and down the North Shore to helping open up the Gunflint Trail, sled dog teams have played a recurring role in the story of Cook County.A new three-day sled dog race set for next month aims to highlight that heritage, while…
Sled Dog Races To Return To Hamilton If It Snows
While there has been a lack of snow so far this winter, organizers hope that the annual sled dog races will return to town next month after being canceled last year.The races are scheduled for Jan. 19 and 20 at Appleton Farms. This year’s course will begin and end on…
Snow Conditions Cooperate for Early Season Sled Dog Race
Ryan Redington used a fast first day and strong finish in the second day of racing to capture first place and the $3,000 top prize in the 2012 Alaska Excursions 120 Sunday.The veteran Valley musher finished the fourth annual race with an overall time of 5 hours, 49 minutes and…
30 Years of Yukon Quest at Whitehorse Museum
On Thursday, three decades of artifacts and memories from the historic Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race, which spans 1,000 miles between Fairbanks, Alaska and the Canadian city of Whitehorse, in the Yukon Territory, will go on display at the MacBride Museum, according to the Whitehorse Star.The staff at the…
Hopewell Teen to Compete in Junior Iditarod Sled Dog Race
It is the most famous sled dog race in the world, the Iditarod… over 1,000 miles, through Alaska’s toughest terrain. It’s so popular, there is even a junior version. This year, 15-year-old Taylor Steele of Hopewell will be racing a sled dog team in it.”I kept watching movies and it…
Mush! – NH Sixth-graders Get a Visit From Iditarod Racer
CANDIA – What kid could possibly pass up a chance to ride on a dog sled? For that matter, what adult could? So, when Moore School teacher Judi Lindsey had a chance to bring an official musher to her 57 sixth-graders, she grabbed the opportunity.Lindsey has always loved dogs and…
Area Mushers Tackle Iditarod
Four mushers from the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta signed up to run the Iditarod in 2013.Mike Williams Sr ., Mike Williams Jr. and Richie Diehl, all of Aniak, and Pete Kaiser of Bethel made their application for the world-renown sled dog race from Anchorage to Nome before the Nov. 30 deadline.Mike Williams…
Two-Day Dogsled Race Gives Musher First Taste of the Trail
After the cancellation of the Sheep Mountain 150 dog sled race due to lack of snow, Mushers are looking to this weekend’s Alaska Excursion 120 as the early-season tune-up race of the winter.Area mushers such as Vern Halter, Lisbett Norris from Willow, and Anya Radano from Talkeetna will line out…