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Travis Beals: Coming Together

  • April 22, 2013
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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 a half later, Beals found himself in a similar daydream state in Rohn on rest while mushing the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Using his knife to cut the ends off his new plastic sled runners, Beals said he was not paying attention to what he was doing, cutting toward himself and not away, he said.Read more here: http://peninsulaclarion.com/news/2013-04-20/coming-together

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