Monday, February 18, 2008

Dog Days

Today was day 2 (of 2) of the Doc Harris Memorial Sled Dog Races. It was balmy at around 9F with light wind and light snow.

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Most people haul their dogs to the start with snowmachines and dog boxes.


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These are Buddu's dogs.


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This one is keeping a close eye on everything.

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That's Eric Seih and John Baker. John is an Iditarod musher. Eric has been running one of his teams this winter. Look for Eric this year in the Kobuk 440.


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This is Darin Nelson's team entering the chute. Darin will also be racing in this year's Iditarod as a rookie. I should mention that the Doc Harris Memorial is a 16 mile sprint race. Eric and Darin run distance dogs but entered this race to give their dogs some racing experience and exercise. They came in a good half hour behind the sprint dogs...which is to be expected.


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The dogs get real excited when they are waiting to take off.


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They like to jump around.....


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...a lot.


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This is Eric's team comin in at the finish.


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Here is Cyrus at the finish.

Next weekend is the women's race.

3 comments:

Becky said...

"And for this segment of our broadcast, we go to Cathy in Kotzubue..."

AWESOME photos! I loved how you captured the dogs excitement! Beautiful dogs, too!

Man, makes me want to mush.

Becky said...

ack...I meant Kotzebue. I think.

Anonymous said...

We will keep an eye out for all at the Ceremonial Start and then again up in Willow. Once again SUPER pictures!

Marianne in Palmer