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Meet The Mushers: Ben Stamm

By oddJoe ⋅ December 28, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Ben lives in Wisconsin and I give him a lot of credit. When he’s not training for mushing events, he sells bait and rents boats to rude, drunk flatlanders up from Chicago. That is not a job anyone should have to have. Ben has been training sled dogs since 1999 and ran his first Iditarod […]

Meet The Mushers: Bjørnar Andersen

By oddJoe ⋅ December 28, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Bjørnar comes from the land of the ice and snow. (Cue Robert Plant: Ahh, ahh, ahh, ahh!) Yes, he’s a Norseman come to pillage the Iditarod Trail Race trophy, and he just might do it. Bjørnar finished in fourth place last year becoming the first rookie to finish The Last Great Race in the top […]

Meet The Mushers: Sebastian Schnuelle

By oddJoe ⋅ December 27, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Sebastian is a wild-haired German who moved to Canada in 1995. He moved to the Yukon in 1997 and took up mushing, later opening Blue Kennels, a dog sled tour business. Baron von Dogenmusher fell ill during a run in the Yukon Quest in 1999, an illness he attributed to going without beer for three […]

Meet The Mushers: Peter Bartlett

By oddJoe ⋅ December 27, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Peter is a young man from Maine who moved to Alaska in 1997 so that he could pursue mushing. In his first Iditarod run in 2002, though, our man Peter hit a tree and got separated from his team. Luckily, another musher spotted his team and secured the dogs until Peter could get back to […]

Meet The Mushers: Max Hall

By oddJoe ⋅ December 27, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Pip, pip, cheerio, and all that good stuff. Max is an Englishman and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Well, at least he shouldn’t get lost along the trail to Nome. Max first experienced the Iditarod Trail Race as a tourist in the early 1990s before entering the race in 1995. His 47th place […]

Meet The Mushers: Matt Hayashida

By oddJoe ⋅ December 26, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Born and raised in Massachusetts, this Yankee moved West to become a river guide in Wyoming before heading to The Last Frontier in 1993. Matt has finished the Iditarod Trail Race twice before, in 1998 and 99 and is back this time to improve on his best finish of 33rd place. He and his wife […]

Meet The Mushers: Warren Palfrey

By oddJoe ⋅ December 26, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Warren is one of a select few Iditarod challengers racing under the Maple Leaf flag. Yes, he’s all Canadian: born and raised in Manitoba and a current resident of Yellowknife. He’s a veteran musher but this is his first attempt at The Last Great Race. A plumber by trade, Warren raises Alaskan huskies with his […]

Meet The Mushers: John Barron

By oddJoe ⋅ December 25, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

If you’re looking for a grizzled Iditarod veteran to cast in a movie, John’s your man. He’s been in 20 trail races since 1979, finishing 11th in 1986. A native Texan who moved to Alaska as a boy and now lives in Montana, I bet John doesn’t take a lot of crap from smart alecky […]

Meet The Mushers: Rodger Roberts

By oddJoe ⋅ December 25, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Rodger has a long connection with the Iditarod Trail Race. While serving in the Air Force he handed out coffee and donuts at Tatalina AFB and took up the sport in 1965. He’s finished the race three times placing 38th in 1987. Rodger dropped out of racing for health reasons in the 1990s, but claims […]

Meet The Mushers: Dave Tresino

By oddJoe ⋅ December 24, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Dave is originally from Buffalo, New York, where I guess it wasn’t snowy and cold enough because he moved to Alaska in 1974. He started mushing in 1976 but didn’t enter the Iditarod Trail Race until 2000 when he finished in 67th place, one step ahead of Red Lantern winner Fedor Konyukhov. The next year […]

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