Readers who now live or used to live in Alaska were disappointed I did not acknowledge the finish of the year's Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race Wednesday.
Sorry. I have been reading up on it since.
I did not realize two-time champ Lance Mackey is the half-brother of Rick Mackey, who won the race in 1983, the last time I watched the start in downtown Anchorage, and the son of Dick Mackey, who won in 1978.
When I lived in Anchorage mushers were such big celebrities they endorsed not only products such as dog food in TV commercials but also beer and other stuff.
Nothing like a cold Olympia when it's 40 below and you're under the stars with your dogs.
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"A" cold Oly???
It was never anything less than a "chitchpack" of Oly.
No Libby Riddles photos?
Susan Butcher?
Susan Butcher WAS NOT the most well liked musher on the sleddog circuit in those days. Story was that she was disdainful of many of the "common courtesies" that mushers were expected to perform during the race....like taking turns breaking trail in heavy snow areas....
Most of the "in crowd" were ecstatic when Libby became the 1st female to win the Iditarod...and equally happy when Butcher took Riddles victory particularly hard.