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Meet The Mushers: Noah Burmeister

By oddJoe ⋅ January 20, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Noah likes to race, be it stock cars or dog sleds. It’s all the same to him. He has, what’s the phrase, “a need for speed.” Okay, top speed on a dog sled is maybe a little slower than a stock car, but Noah’s just a competitor. He can’t help it, really, I mean his […]

Meet The Mushers: Cim Smyth

By oddJoe ⋅ January 20, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

If you something about mushing, you may already know Cim Smyth. We don’t, so we didn’t and were surprised to learn that he is the son of veteran musher “Bud” Smyth. We con imagine (completely ignorant of any and all pertinent facts) that as a young boy Cim show an early talent for drawing, an […]

Meet The Mushers: Ben Valks

By oddJoe ⋅ January 20, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Ben is your typical, rugged, Dutch adventurer, if by rugged you mean jet-setting playboy who probably travels first class. Okay, we kid a bit, but he won a dressage championship for heaven’s sake. That’s not to say Ben isn’t a world traveler, having worked in South America and Japan before establishing his own company in […]

Meet The Mushers: Tove Sørensen

By oddJoe ⋅ January 19, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Like her husband, Tore Albrigtsen, Tove has been mushing for many years but is making her first run in the Iditarod Trail Race. She took up the sport a decade ago and has taken part in the Finnmarksløpet 11 times.

Meet The Mushers: Tore Albrigtsen

By oddJoe ⋅ January 19, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Tore is listed as a rookie but he is actually quite an accomplished musher. Hailing from Troms�, Norway, he has been active in the sport since 1979 and has completed the Finnmarksløpet eight times. He operates an outdoor activity center with his wife, Tove Sørensen, that offers dog sled tours in the winter and kayaking […]

Meet The Mushers: Fabrizio Lovati

By oddJoe ⋅ January 19, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Ciao, Fabrizio! Lovati is pure Italian from Italy and everything. He started mushing as a teenager and has raced in some of Europe’s major races, including the Alpinrod and Pireng. Fabrizio raced in his first Iditarod Trail Race in 2004, placing 28th. He is also an avid rally racer and biker, as well as a […]

Meet The Mushers: Ryan Redington

By oddJoe ⋅ January 18, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

I worry a bit about Ryan. You see, he comes from a long line of champion mushers, like his dad, Raymie Redington, and his grandfather, Joe Redington, Sr., who was a co-founder of The Last Great Race. How can you live up to that? Family connections aside, Ryan is an accomplished musher in his own […]

Meet The Mushers: Paul Ellering

By oddJoe ⋅ January 18, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

If you’re into professional wrestling, you might know Paul as Precious Paul Ellering, who went on to manage the Legion of Doom featuring Hawk and the Animal. I’m not, so I don’t, but I also don’t believe someone would make that shit up, so I’ll take him at his word. I wonder if before the […]

Meet The Mushers: Tollef Monson

By oddJoe ⋅ January 17, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Tollef is from Minnesota (you can tell from the name) and will turn 27 about a month before this year’s Iditarod Trail Race. Hailing from the Twin Cities, he moved to Alaska in 2000 to find his fortune in the commercial fishing industry and took up mushing two years later. He ran The Last Great […]

Meet The Mushers: Rick Larson

By oddJoe ⋅ January 17, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Rick is a construction worker and outdoorsman from Montana who is back to run the Iditarod Trail Race after a year’s absence. Placing 47th in his inaugural race in 2004 was marred by the fact that his home burnt down while he was away, so Rick had to take a year off to rebuild his […]