Sentences with phrase «musher from»

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

Not exact matches

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

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.

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?

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

In order to move from checkpoint to checkpoint the math mushers must complete math problems, along with a given task that is supposed to warm them up as they travel along the chilly trail.

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

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

This is why mushers cover their bellies with special dog coats and cover their paws with booties that protect their feet from cracking.

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.

Some mushers tend to stay away from hills and only train on flat surfaces, this is fine if that is all you want to do... but if you are training for events, train on surfaces you will compete on.

There are so many factors to dog mushing most of which you will learn through observing and paying attention to your dogs and what other mushers do some you may learn what not to do and from others what to do.

Although relatively infrequent in the UK there are occasional races on actual snow and mushers come from far and wide to participate making it a great day out for Husky owners watching their breed do what they do best.

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.

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.

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.

Those who want to catch the end of the race in Nome can fly from within Alaska or out - of - state to catch the mushers coming into the finish line, typically eight days and several hours from the start of the race and up to 10 days after, though accommodations are limited, and should also be booked well in advance.

In the evening, a special farewell dinner was followed by a presentation from local dog mushers.

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.