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Scientist, author, professor, dog musher, and founder of the Alaska Family Violence Prevention Project, Dr. Linda Chamberlain is an internationally recognized keynote speaker and champion for health issues related to domestic violence and adverse childhood experiences, brain development and trauma, and the amazing adolescent brain.

Living on a rural homestead outside of Homer, Alaska with her husband and dog team, she has created an innovative lecture series on leadership and teamwork that incorporates lessons from the trail based on her experiences as a dog musher.

A scenic drive in an open air vehicle up the Iditarod Trail takes you to Iditarod musher, Nick Petit's dog kennel.

Back at the cabin I wash up with a lotion tissue and brush my teeth with a cup of water from the jerrycan the musher fills with water from an ice - hole in the lake.

Imagine slogging through blinding ice and snowstorms, in winds strong enough to flip you, your musher and his sled upside down.

A good owner provides a house with fresh hay but often you see the dogs preferring to sit outside at minus zero degrees happily prancing and excitedly watching for the musher to get the harnesses out.

They are truly physical marvels and musher.

We have since revisited Alaska in winter of 2011 and met with Iditarod musher Jeff King and World renown sprint musher Egil Ellis.

This Great Race spans from Anchorage to Nome as the musher and her team of 12 to 16 dogs cover over 1,150 miles of rough and beautiful terrain in only 10 to 17 days.

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.

He is also a professional musher and showed us his dozen or so dogs.

We met Jessie Ryan, an upcoming musher from Minnesota, who put these dogs through another mushing demonstration for us.

He's also a sled - dog musher, and in March, Dr. Hunt will be heading to Alaska as an Iditarod competitor.

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Ted English is the oldest musher in the race at 65; Cali King and Tyrel Seavey, both offspring of veteran mushers, are the youngest at age 18.

Alaskan musher Lance Mackey has won the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race and set an Iditarod record for most consecutive wins.

More than 54 teams remained on the Iditarod trail headed toward Nome, including rookie Jamaican musher Newton Marshall, who was in 48th place.

Any action or inaction which causes preventable pain or suffering to a dog is expressly forbidden, and a dog who is noted to be in critical condition can cause the musher to be held at a checkpoint for up to eight hours while an investigation is completed.

This year, musher Jeremy Gebauer's five - year - old dog, Rodman, died after running 650 miles in the race.

Siberians caught the eye of the public when they began winning sled races in the early 1900s, but they made headlines in 1925 when a legendary musher Leonhard Seppala led a relay of Siberian Huskies 658 miles in only five and half days to rush a lifesaving serum to Nome, Alaska, where an epidemic of diphtheria had broken out.

Dr. Tim, aside from making dog food, is also a veterinarian and a musher who owns Alaskan Huskies.

The musher must file a form when leaving the dog and provide a chain and food for the animal.

Dropped dogs are flown to Nome where the musher can pick them up after the race.

The initial work has also been done for a weaver who runs a small flock of colored sheep, a farmer storing feed grain in his barn, a flock - owner in wolf territory, a recreational musher, a rabbit hunter, and a pet owner with an interest in any of the characteristics of the herding, guarding, terrier, working, or hound dogs; what remains is to find just the right breed to match the lifestyle and personality of the owner.

He aims to include the best ingredients for dogs, and as an experienced dog musher, he understands the needs of both working and other dogs.

He is the one who started the company and is a veterinarian as well as an accomplished dog musher.

The victory marked the third year in a row that the winning musher was feeding Dr. Tim's Momentum Dog Food as their dry kibble.

Frostbite — that was the official reason given by the musher.

Or that you could take a musher to the spot where food and water was stored... but you weren't allowed to help feed the dogs?

She wondered if she could buy Juno from the musher with some of the money left over in the stolen wallet.

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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!

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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!

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?

«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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.