Husky News

Mushers won’t have to deal with sled-burning descent through the boulders. Read the rest of this entry »

Poor trail conditions have prompted a course change for the 25th Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race, which starts Saturday. Read the rest of this entry »

A Frenchman and a German will bookend the start of the 25th Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race here today, and neither is happy about their position. Read the rest of this entry »

As promised, here is the first of our however-many part series highlighting the competitors in this year’s running of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. We begin with last year’s champion Lance Mackey. Read the rest of this entry »

The 25th Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race had not even begun before the first major story broke this afternoon - teams will be trucked from the Chena Hot Springs checkpoint to the Mile 101 dog drop checkpoints to avoid a 42-mile stretch that includes a rocky and snow-parched Rosebud Summit. Read the rest of this entry »

It might appear that Yukon Quest rookie musher Jean-Denis Britten has already dropped two dogs by the time Read the rest of this entry »

This year, notorious Eagle Summit isn’t the main trail concern for officials of the Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race Read the rest of this entry »

Officials with the Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race say poor trail conditions have caused a change for the race. Read the rest of this entry »

Compare Lance Mackey and Donald Smidt, and it seems they have little in common. Read the rest of this entry »

Two children of well-known Yukon Quest mushers highlight the field for the Junior Yukon Quest, which starts Saturday at noon in downtown Fairbanks. Read the rest of this entry »

When Alice White takes her dog out for a run, she makes sure she wears a helmet, elbow and knee pads. Read the rest of this entry »

Trent Herbst of Ketchum, Idaho, and Jeremie Matrishon of Whitehorse, Yukon, withdrew from the Quest in the past week, leaving 27 mushers still entered. Read the rest of this entry »

The start of the 1,000-mile Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race in Fairbanks on Feb. 9 this year marks the 25th annual running of the race or, to put it more succinctly and in common terms, the 25th anniversary. Read the rest of this entry »

Back problems won’t stop the Ledwidge family in Dawson City from competing in the 1,600-kilometre Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race. Read the rest of this entry »

If Donald Smidt’s drive to the Iditarod is any indication, he’s in for a heckuva race at the 25th annual Yukon Quest sled dog race. Read the rest of this entry »

Regardless of the race outcome at the 2008 Yukon Quest, history will be made at the event and it is all thanks to Wilco van den Akker. Read the rest of this entry »

As Bill Pinkham nears, a bucket of food dangling from each hand, a cacophony of barks and howls busts out. Read the rest of this entry »

A 22-year-old man from Aviemore is heading for Canada to help train huskies for an extreme dog sled race. Read the rest of this entry »

A 1,000-mile race across the frozen wastes of Alaska with just a husky for transport? Bring it on, says Nicholas Roe. Read the rest of this entry »

Lance Mackey accomplished something that many people thought was impossible when he won the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race and the Yukon Quest in the same year. But he said the main thing is just for him and his dogs to have fun. Read the rest of this entry »