| I'm finally back in my room and feeling a special sort of sympathy for Iditarod mushers. |
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| It was very exciting to watch as 10 teams took off with mushers from Wisconsin, Alaska, Yukon and Saskatchewan. |
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| Most mushers start with the maximum-allowed team of 16 dogs but settle down to 12 to 14 for the main haul beyond Rainy Pass. |
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| This wild and untrammelled expanse, over thousands of miles of uninterrupted trail, makes for a very intense wilderness experience for the mushers. |
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| But they also tell their story in a style straightforward enough that readers will be swept up in the drama of how 20 mushers covered nearly 700 miles in about six days. |
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| Each team of dogs and their mushers cover the distance across Alaska to Nome in approximately nine to 17 days. |
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| Each race will give points to the mushers according to their placement in comparison to the other mushers competing in the Arctic Alps Cup. |
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| The three best mushers in the cup will share a purse of 10 000 euros for the first edition. |
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| Anti-doping controls are also conducted on mushers by random urine sample collection. |
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| The progress of each of the mushers along the itinerary is followed in real time at the headquarters on a high definition map visual. |
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| Returning after travelling 160 kilometres in 5 days, we feel icicles on our cheeks as we say goodbye to the dogs and their mushers. |
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| In other words the top 6 Canadian mushers per class will qualify through world cup points accumulated through the 2010 winter racing season. |
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| We welcome mushers, skijorers, and skiers to join us on this unique adventure across the frozen lakes of Quetico Provincial Park. |
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| He propose a complete range of products especially done for mushers and fans. |
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| Winning mushers incredibly cover the distance in just nine to 12 days. |
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| Climbers atop Everest phone home via portable satellite dishes, while pocket-size global positioning systems guide mushers on the Yukon Quest trail. |
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| Our mushers will drive you over our trails with a team of 4 to 8 dogs. |
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| While some mushers train their teams over the summer or the off-season with wheeled rigs or all-terrain vehicles, most wait until September or October. |
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| But when no capable pilot was available during Alaska's diphtheria epidemic of 1925, a team of mushers battled blizzard conditions and rushed serum to icebound Nome. |
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| You can also become initiated into a dog team driving by the numerous mushers who live in our mountains with their dogs pack and the children are not forgotten. |
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| Every year, since 2005, the Grande Odyssée makes big news, with its huskies which can be considered as high-level athletes and its competitive mushers. |
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| With his victory in the 2009 Iditarod, Mackey joined Susan Butcher and Doug Swingley as the only mushers to have won the event three consecutive times. |
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| The public has the opportunity to follow the mushers on screens positioned in the stations and also in real time on the official website of La Grande Odyssée Savoie Mont Blanc. |
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| But that will only be for show: the mushers and their dogs will then be ferried to a course starting in Fairbanks, far to the north of the usual route. |
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| Chilkoot Trail NHS is shared by a wide range of winter users, from snowmobilers and dog mushers, to snowboarders, backcountry and cross-country skiers, snowshoers, as well as a local trapper. |
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| La Grande Odyssée Savoie Mont Blanc is one of the few playgrounds where mushers can enjoy the beauty that is found in this snow capped mountain paradise. |
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| The race brings together each year 20 of the best mushers in the world. |
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| We hope that this will result in a reasonable distribution of sanctioned races across the country that Canadian mushers can attend to maximize their chances for qualification. |
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