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Anthony Beck drives his sled at the 2023 Deh Gah Sprint Sled Dog Races in Fort Providence in December 2023. Beck has only been able to compete in four races this winter due to weather conditions. | Photo courtesy of Anthony Beck, Article: Tom Taylor - NNSL Media - NWT, Canada
It has been “a strange winter” for sled dog racers in the NWT, according to Susan Fleck, one of the territory’s most dedicated mushers and race organizers.
The Aurora Ford Classic Sled Dog Race was cancelled on its second day due to extreme cold, she said, while the K’amba Carnival races were nixed for the same reason. Fort Smith’s races were also cancelled on day two due to rain, and the Fort Resolution races were nearly cancelled due to “a big wind and snowstorm” that compromised the track.
Hay River’s Anthony Beck, a lifelong racer with 36 dogs...
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Iditarod Air Force missions include picking up dogs at various checkpoints (Nikolai, in this case). Mushers expect that dogs will need to leave the race, usually because of fatigue, and be given a ride back to Anchorage in an airplane. | Article: Alicia Herron, Photo: Chris Rose - AOPA.org - Iditarod
This March marked the running of the fifty-second Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, crossing nearly 1,000 miles of Alaska wilderness in little more than a week. While each team races alone, a volunteer squadron provides air support in Cessna Skywagons.
With the ceremonial start in downtown Anchorage on March 2, followed by the official restart in Willow the following day, reaching Nome pushed the most competitive mushers and their teams to their physical limits. (Dallas Seavey won his record sixth Iditarod, overcoming a two-hour penalty for improperly gutting a moose that attacked his team to finish in 9 days,...
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