Huge crowds lined up on the sides of the finish line at today’s third annual Copper Dog 150 dog sled race. Officials said around 750 people showed up compared to a couple hundred from previous years.Mushers raced back from Copper Harbor to cross the line in Calumet. Todd Brassard, the Director for the race said there were a lot of concerns.”This was the year where it was kind of going to make or break the race. We needed to know if our volunteers are going to be in it for the long hall. Are the race teams going to want to come back? How’s our race conditions going to be and we got lucky. We got snow, it was tough going for the first couple of days with all the fresh snow, but obviously this is great,” said BrassardRead more here: http://www.minbcnews.com/news/story.aspx?id=726679#.T1RACN2BV74
