To keep you all entertained, I’m going to share with you a little story I wrote a few years back, about my first Iditarod back in the early 90’s. It’s a fairly long story, and I’m breaking it into 4 segments that I’ll dole out throughout the day. I’ll also work in some analysis of […]
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Mama, don’t let your babies grow up to be dog musher’s…
July 9, 2011 
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I gave up a life of professional dog mushing completely after the 2010 season–Harm & I made the decision to do so together, and some day I’ll talk with more specificity about the reasons why….there will be no “come out of retirement come back tour,” no more large kennel or big plans revolving around the […]
Continue readingTension on the Iditarod Trail
April 16, 2011 4 Comments
…We saw that video interview with Lance, and while he promised to keep on fighting the good fight, it was perfectly obvious that he knew he was up a creek without a paddle. Martin looking like the old, confident version of himself from the past when it had been he who’d dominated–Sebastian, Hugh and Hans […]
Continue readingRevisiting the Iditarod
April 13, 2011 4 Comments
Excerpt from my current Iditarod story–if you want to read the whole thing, you’ll be able to in the next edition of Mushing Mag …that run from Takotna to Iditarod is a very long run indeed—some would say almost impossibly long to attempt in one jump—and pretty much all of them ran it straight through, […]
Continue readingIditarod Rookie
March 20, 2011 8 Comments
I ran my first Iditarod in 1993 at the tender age of 21 years–I certainly didn’t feel “tender”. Full of youthful optimism and arrogance, I strode onto 4th Ave in downtown Anchorage all those long days ago feeling like I was ten feet tall and bulletproof, as if the length and girth of my manhood […]
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