Tag Archives: Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race

Leader Lights

This is a post I wrote a few back on “mushing equipment”–hope you don’t mind the rerun 🙂 I am a firm believer in LED lights. Seems like that’s all anyone uses nowadays, but back in ’04 I was the only driver in the lower 48 using this technology to train/race  teams  that I know […]

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Something to cool you off!

    Harm, myself, & Harm’s team on the 2005 Kuskokwim 300, taken with a cheap little grocery store box camera at about -80 with the windchill Photos courtesy od H. Barron

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Thinking About Winter (& Mushing!)

  Just a few wintery, mushery photos to get you in the mood for the upcoming 2012 mushing season…

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Injury on the Trail of the Great Race

I grew up with my brothers on the Yentna River knowing little else then a rough, subsistence lifestyle, and mushing sled dogs– both for competition as well as transportation. It’s fair enough to say that I have a deep connection with the land, its people, and its primary recreation/sport that nears  the level of obsession. […]

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One of My Favorite Posts From The 2011 Iditarod

I was recently trolling through my old blog posts when I came across this particular one, written the night before John Baker made Iditarod history by winning the latest edition of the legendary race…I hope you all enjoy the “re-run”. ~ Just like you, I’ve watched this race unfold all across the Northland, from the […]

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