Last week three mushers were on stage for the fourth annual Alaska Sports Hall of Fame induction ceremony, as described by Danny Martin for the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner:
One unique celebration of the event in the atrium of the ConocoPhillips building was Fairbanks sled dog racer Lance Mackey getting inducted on the same night as [...]
The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner’s Joshua Armstrong captured all the fun and excitement of the Yukon Quest Awards Banquet in Whitehorse with his article, Yukon Quest wraps up this year’s race with awards:
Gatt’s possible retirement from the Quest and Iditarod was a hot topic of the night as mushers each took turns at the microphone.
“It would [...]
“Far more potent were the memories of his heredity that gave things he had never seen before a seeming familiarity; the instincts (which were but the memories of his ancestors become habits) which had lapsed in later days, and still later, in him, quickened and became alive again.” -Jack London, The Call of the Wild [...]
The musher’s profile on the Yukon Quest website provides a glimpse of Hans Gatt’s life, race history, and achievements, listing his age as 51; his place of birth as Ellbogen, Austria; his current residence as Whitehorse. Yukon; his occupations as sled builder and professional dog sled racer; and giving his Gatt Sleds website (“Gatt Sleds [...]