Sentences with phrase «many mushers»

Jim's ethically run dog sledding teams have been winning dog sledding races in Quebec's Sled Dog Club competitions recently, and he's spreading the word to other sled dog owners and mushers about coconut oil.

Mackey is already the only musher to win four straight Iditarods.

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.

In 2008, when Paul Gebhardt, a top musher who had finished the Iditarod 11 times, went for a long run without sleep, he became so disoriented that he turned around just shy of a checkpoint.

His neighbors included well - known mushers, and that rekindled his childhood passion for the sport.

He began by taking in street mutts and other mushers» castoffs — the kind of dogs Lance could relate to.

On March 5 he will again start the trek across the width of Alaska, attempting to become the second musher, along with Rick Swenson, to win a fifth Iditarod — and the only one to win five consecutively.

He would become fond of saying, «You ain't nothing as a musher unless you win the Iditarod.»

From Cripple, mushers will head to Ruby, which is another 70 miles away.

The leading mushers left Nikolai on Tuesday night and should arrive in McGrath sometime on Wednesday.

It has become a popular place for mushers to take their mandatory 24 - hour layovers because of the excellent facilities there, including a 24 - hour kitchen for mushers and staff.

On Saturday, 66 mushers and their teams of dogs will leave Anchorage as the 2012 Iditarod gets underway.

A map of the route can be found here and the current leaderboard, which takes into account where the mushers are and when they checked in and out of the camps along the route, can be found here.

Dallas Seavey made history Tuesday night when he won the 2012 Iditarod Sled Dog Race, becoming the youngest musher ever to do so, at just 25 - years - old.

Just more head games in the Iditarod writes former musher Sebastian Schnuelle:

But the race is far from over — While the official times show Seavey leaving well before Zirkle, it doesn't show that he stopped just 20 minutes outside of town to rest his team there, out of sight from the other mushers.

With mushers as your guide you will get a chance to witness true working sled dogs in action!

A Challenge to Canine Health The rigors of the Iditarod sled dog race, in which a musher and a team of 12 to 16 dogs cover some 1,150 miles in 16 days, takes its toll on the health of its athletes.

Mushers must carry sick or injured dogs to the next checkpoint for treatment and continue the race without that canine.

Mushers ran the dogs in mock, 100 - mile races for four to five days in a row.

«The bloodlines of my dogs date back 100 years,» says Lance Mackey, Larry's owner and legendary racing musher, the only person to win the long - distance Iditarod and the Yukon Quest in the same year with the same dog team.

The obvious question now is, How did a nice Bronx boy, who knows the Lexington Avenue subway line like an Iditarod musher knows her dogs, get to bouncing around low and slow over ice fields a short jump from Sitka?

Jim's ethically run dog sledding teams have been winning dog sledding races in Quebec's Sled Dog Club competitions recently, and he's spreading the word to other sled dog owners and mushers about coconut oil.

Junior Iditarod Math skills: addition, subtraction, multiplication, telling time The Junior Iditarod is a sled dog race for mushers under the age of 18.

In order do to that, the mushers must understand fractions.

Calorie Calculations Math skills: subtraction, multiplication, division Dogs and mushers consume a lot of food as they race along the Iditarod trail.

But 20 brave mushers carried units of serum from Nenana to Nome to help fight the disease.

Many of those mushers will go on to become Iditarod mushers.

Iditarod Training Math skills: multiplication, division Mushers train all year for the big race each March.

Iditarod Fractions Math skills: subtraction, division, fractions Iditarod mushers must ration food during the race and they must mix foods in particular quantities.

As she reflects on her Alaskan adventure, she sees quite a few similarities between the skills it takes to be a dog sled musher and a classroom teacher!

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.

With your wall map and miniature dog teams in place, your students committed to following individual mushers, and a well developed background on the dogs, you're ready to receive updates at least twice a day (and more often if you are interested) online.

With every update you post next to the wall map, students can indicate the progress of their mushers by moving their teams along the map.

The ratio of dogs to speed in elapsed time is a fairly accurate indicator of the success each musher is having on the trail.

Each musher must take at least one extended layover at a checkpoint of his / her choosing and two shorter layovers to rest the dogs and make sure they are properly cared for.

But as the teams spread out across the Klondike, mushers whittle numbers down to an average of six dogs in order to increase speed on the open, fast tundra.

A nice extension of this activity is to make a template of a musher's team (usually no bigger than an inch by 2 inches in size), or have students create their own small facsimiles of a dog team out of tagboard and label them with their names.

Another angle that ties into strategy is the number of dogs each musher uses at each stage of the race.

Children love problem solving while considering the variables of time and distance to determine which mushers make the best use of their required stops without losing ground to the competition.

Meet the Mushers Each student writes about a musher participating in this year's Iditarod and keeps a journal of his or her progress throughout the race.

They each write a musher biography and present it to the class.

I also went to teacher workshops on the Iditarod in Alaska, and met mushers.

We do math lines, and follow the mushers.

In even - numbered years, the mushers and their dog teams follow the northern route.

The Iditarod race crosses 1,049 miles of Alaska, so the mushers and their dogs travel through varied terrain.

In the lesson students have been selected to travel across Alaska in the «Amazing Iditarod Race» as math mushers.

Joe, along with many other past mushers, have bravely served our country.

DULUTH, Minn. — In an effort to attract more mushers and infuse new energy into their event, organizers of the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon have agreed to shorten the iconic winter race that skirts the North Shore and evokes a historic mail route.

It gives students the opportunity to experience the race through the lens of a rookie musher which will keep them guessing what Paulsen will do next!