Helen on June 11th, 2010

Craig Medred has been writing about the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race for three decades, from following the race as Outdoor Editor for the Anchorage Daily News to his latest gig as a staff writer for the online newsmagazine Alaska Dispatch. Most fans of the race who’ve been around for more than a couple of [...]

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Helen on April 14th, 2010

Alaska Dispatch’s Team & Trail blog presents a wide-ranging collection of articles and news items relating to sled dog racing in Alaska, written by Northern Light Media’s Helen Hegener. Here are a few of the more interesting posts which have appeared over the past few weeks:
Jujiro Wada: Co-founder of Fairbanks and Iditarod trailblazer There [...]

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Helen on February 15th, 2010

Check Point with Jon Little:

Hans Gatt has claimed his fourth Yukon Quest title in a convincing, record-smashing run that pitted him against the reigning four-time champion in an epic 450-mile “sprint” to the finish in which his dogs took just over 15 hours of rest in addition to the mandatory eight hours at Braeburn.
Mushers on [...]

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Helen on February 9th, 2010

“It is clear and cold, and there is no wind. When daylight comes we can see a long ways off. And it is very quiet. We can hear no sound but the beat of our hearts, and in the silence that is a very loud sound.” -Jack London, The Sundog Trail (Harper’s Monthly, December, 1905)
As [...]

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Helen on February 6th, 2010

We’re on the Yukon Quest trail again! The race starts at 11 am this morning in downtown Fairbanks, with 24 mushers cruising up the Chena River on their way to Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada, following old mail and freight routes 1,000 miles through some of the wildest country left in North America!
This year we’re reporting [...]

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