Sentences with phrase «where mushers»

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.

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.

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

Not exact matches

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?

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.