Sentences with phrase «first musher»

Next week Lance Mackey will choose 16 of his 120 huskies, tie them to his sled and try to become the first musher to win five straight Iditarods.

The Siberian tribes were among the first mushers, followed by explorers and hunters, who moved to arctic latitudes and found that the best way to travel was by means of a dog and sled.

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Students see first hand the pride and dignity that comes with seeing a job through to its completion, every musher on their own terms with the frozen trail.

Around this same time they made their first appearance in what is known as the All Alaskan Sweepstakes, where mushers pushed their dog teams to make the 408 - mile run from Nome to Candie.

The ceremonial start of the race is in Anchorage; mushers and teams travel to Wasilla or Willow the first day and hit the trail in earnest on March 7.

He was one of the first well - known mushers to regularly drive dogs over long distances (100 miles +) on a daily basis as well as to continue to train dogs during the summer using wheeled vehicles.

At this point, the first plan of action in building her business is for Courtney to do some volunteer work with a dog sled musher in Alaska and gain some experience working with that population.

Highlights include tracking jaguars by dugout canoe in Guyana, tracking orangutan in eastern Sabah, backpacking round Japan, and being part of the first team of husky mushers to cross from Finland into Russia.