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Musher in 1st will get fancy dinner at checkpoint

...Served with port.Alaska musher scratches from Iditarod ANCHORAGE...The 59-year-old Healy musher scratched at the checkpoint...began Sunday in Willow. Three mushers have scratched.The 1,000-mile...the race, and was the first musher into the checkpoint in the...

http://juneauempire.com/sports/2013-03-08/musher-1st-will-get-fancy-dinner-check
Sports
4 mushers scratch from Iditarod

...NOME, Alaska (AP) - Four mushers scratched Tuesday from the...scratch Tuesday.The Wasilla musher has the flu, and scratched...checkpoint.Another Wasilla musher, Rudy Demoski Sr., also...teams have scratched and one musher was withdrawn.

http://juneauempire.com/sports/2013-03-13/4-mushers-scratch-iditarod
Sports
Iditarod a confidence-builder for rookie musher

...was the youngest musher in the race this...the 12 other rookie mushers. Although he has...So did the young musher feel intimidated...by older, veteran mushers in the sport's...as the Willow musher with Peninsula roots...energy to besting the mushers he used to daydream...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-04-29/iditarod-confidence-builder-rookie-mush
State
Alaska dog musher guides face endangerment charges

FAIRBANKS - Two dog musher guides face criminal charges after police say they left one of their...Billingsley weren't prepared and didn't provide the two novice mushers with the proper survival gear.The U.S. Bureau of Land Management...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2012-07-29/alaska-dog-musher-guides-face-endangerm
State
Illinois musher credited with saving child in Ruby

...any other Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race musher wouldn't have done; he just happened...Unalakleet.The Park Ridge, Ill., musher walked to the checkpoint to fill out the...Chicago.The woman asked if anyone at the musher checkpoint could attend her son."I...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2012-03-14/illinois-musher-credited-saving-child-r
State
Troopers search for missing musher

ANCHORAGE - Alaska State Troopers searched Monday for a 34-year-old Iditarod musher missing for nearly a week, a disappearance that alarmed friends who say she wouldn't have left without her favorite dog or finding...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2011-06-06/troopers-search-missing-musher
State
Drug testing planned for Iditarod mushers

...do a pee test," musher Zack Steer of Sheep...Palin voting no. Mushers began signing up...from their bodies. Mushers point to marijuana...helps or hinders a musher's dog care. "I've never seen a musher gain a competitive...them. The issue of mushers smoking on the trail...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/120709/sta_532984881.shtml
For mushers, Takotna is the spa of the Iditarod Trail

...trail-weary mushers would want. For mushers in the Iditarod Trail Sled...decades has been barking at mushers like a mother dog whose pups...Jan says as another exhausted musher with a windburned face enters...center and sits down at the long mushers' table adorned with a plastic...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/031309/spo_408679171.shtml
Mushers welcome rest at Alaska wilderness villages

...village of several hundred people, for mushers on the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race...24-hour rest there, watching other mushers arrive and leave, before he departed...dogs, and race officials make sure the mushers are fit to continue.Mushers are required...

http://juneauempire.com/sports/2013-03-06/mushers-welcome-rest-alaska-wilderness
Sports
First day of Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race sign-up lures 60 mushers

WASILLA - Sixty dog mushers, led by three-time defending champion...were among the nearly three dozen mushers on hand June 27 at the annual Iditarod...line-up. In previous years, only mushers who signed up at the picnic were put...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/071309/sta_462726005.shtml

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