Husky News

Veteran Fairbanks musher trims Gatt in frigid 300-miler. Read the rest of this entry »

As she begins her fifth season of competitive sled dog racing, Kathy Lesinski said her family has finally accepted that mushing is her prime pursuit. Read the rest of this entry »

If all this snow made you think Pembroke was going to the dogs, well, this week you were right. Read the rest of this entry »

One musher out; other 26 hit the trail at 42 below. Read the rest of this entry »

The biggest name in sled dog racing looks to recapture his winning ways as the Copper Basin 300 Sled Dog Race tries to celebrate its 20th anniversary by shaking off frigid subzero temperatures that have gripped the region recently. Read the rest of this entry »

Lance Mackey, one of Alaska’s biggest mushing icons, is planning to withdraw from next month’s Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race, an event he’s won a record four straight years. Read the rest of this entry »

Celebrating 25 years of racing in Redstone Sled Dog Races hit their silver anniversary. Read the rest of this entry »

Will take place this year from January 11th to 21st, 2009
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A unique event for the Southeast and a fun educational outing for families and dog lovers, the Alaska Serum Run Re-enactment takes place on the Virginia Creeper Trail from Abingdon trail head to Damascus in southwestern Virginia. Hosted by the Siberian Husky Rescue, the day begins with Breakfast with the Sled Dogs at the farmers market in Abingdon. A storyteller tells the tale of the historic 1925 Alaska event, the serum is handed to the first musher and the four part relay takes place along the trail. Read the rest of this entry »

Jeff Conn of Fairbanks and his 16 dogs won the Orville and Doris Lake Memorial Points Race on Saturday at Tozier Track. Read the rest of this entry »

Morgan Summers beat Alea Robinson by 22 seconds to win the Alaskan Sled Dog Racing Association’s first junior points race of the season Thursday at Tozier Track. Summers drove a team of five dogs 5.8 miles in 19 minutes, 27 seconds. Read the rest of this entry »

A dog team-snowmachine collision at a trail intersection near the Little Susitna River left two dogs injured, a 15-year-old musher shaken, the machine damaged, a good Samaritan rewarded and everyone involved calling for more awareness on local trails as winter activity ramps up. Read the rest of this entry »

Woman from Chatanika wins 200-miler over icons Mackey, King. Read the rest of this entry »

Bill Kornmuller drove a team of 18 dogs to the open-class victory Sunday in a chilly Chugiak Dog Mushers Association points race at the Beach Lake Trails in Chugiak. Read the rest of this entry »

One of the richest events for Alaska teenage athletes has a new sponsor and is set to hand out $13,000 in scholarships to the top five finishers as well as the winners of the humanitarian and sportsmanship awards. Read the rest of this entry »

More than 400 teams and 2,500 dogs from as far away as Finland and Sweden are expected at the 2009 International Federation of Sleddog Sports world championships. Read the rest of this entry »

Two-time defending Iditarod champion Lance Mackey opened his season with a loss on Sunday, finishing two minutes behind Jodi Bailey of Chatanika in the Two Rivers Dog Mushers Solstice 100 race. Read the rest of this entry »

Jessica Hendricks of Two Rivers arrived at the Sheep Mountain Lodge at 12:30 this afternoon with a team of 11 huskies to capture the Sheep Mountain 150 sled-dog championship. Read the rest of this entry »

Under a full moon so big and bright that headlamps were unnecessary, Two Rivers musher Jessica Hendricks left the Eureka Lodge just before 11 p.m. Saturday and headed out on the trail of the Sheep Mountain Lodge 150. Read the rest of this entry »

Nature’s Kennel Sled Dogs, located in the Upper Peninsula, had the canines on display in Port Huron.
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