Here is another excerpt from my ’03 Copper Basin story. It directly follows the excerpt from last week, in case you missed it, here is a link ~ Part 1 And so I rode with it. Wearing my brake tines down to nothing, and hoping like mad that a race official had taken notice of […]
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A Moment on the Trail ~ Harmony Barron
July 13, 2011 
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Here is an excerpt (still quite rough) from my 2003 Copper Basin 300 story, that will be part of Jason and my book of mushing stories. Hope y’all enjoy! Race morning had arrived. Jason was running all about being the best handler one could ask for, while I was still trying to figure out just […]
Continue readingCopper Basin 1992 #1
May 19, 2011 5 Comments
I was raised on the back of a dog team–some of my best and earliest memories are of standing on the runners getting blasted by the elements while watching the dogs lean into the lines. First, running a trapline on the Yentna & Susitna Rivers and hauling supplies/cargo to our family’s homestead a day’s journey from “civilization”, then […]
Continue readingStories from ’round the campfire
May 12, 2011 0 Comments
I’m currently working on two different “mushing stories”–the first is about the 1992 Copper Basin 300 which I ran back when I was but wee lad, still wet behind the ears as it were. It was an epic adventure for me, a coming of age experience that in many ways was comparable to my first Iditarod. […]
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January 11, 2011 0 Comments
I’m running behind schedule here–I’ve been dealing with some serious medical problems just lately, and have not been able to spend as much time watching/analyzing the CB300 as I had planned–but I do know that a new face has emerged to take the prestigious 300 mile race by storm!!! Congratulations to Jake Berkowitz, the champion […]
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