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 [...]
“The ideal, always impossible, is to match dogs of equal speed and endurance, all with mellow temperament and zeal for the trail, dogs with leathery feet and unfailing appetites, dogs with the savvy to know that rest stops are for resting now goofing around, dogs that don’t fight and don’t have to be neutered, so [...]