musher

Two weeks ago, 39 mushers had signed up for the 1988 race.

The first is that each musher must have a team of dogs.

The bond between mushers and their dogs is very strong.

At 50 years of age, King also became the oldest musher to win the race.

But what worried Musher most was the possibility of cancer.

One of the mushers looked up, caught her eye and waved.

In fact it took 20 days for the first of 22 mushers to cross the finish line.

All mushers must adhere to the rules of the race.

Despite her contributions to the sport, she was never a musher.

The 77 mushers, including 7 women, for this year's race start out two minutes apart, run a short distance and stop.

Or that you could take a musher to the spot where food and water was stored.

This year, for the first time, the mushers themselves select their spots.

A group of mushers huddled around her, eager to hear how the run went.

The 1995 race featured 22 mushers, of whom 13 finished.

Henry is a musher who appears in the first part of the novel with Bill.

Many of the dogs and mushers used in the film were locals.

The lead dog is crucial so mushers take particular care of these dogs.

Musher focused on the most likely possibilities for the elderly woman.

Mushers leave the starting line with between 12 and 14 dogs on Saturday afternoon.

From there, 18 mushers and their teams took over.

That race was marked by good weather, and few mushers dropped out.

Every year, in early March, more than 80 mushers and their 16-dog teams set off on a 1,150-mile odyssey.

A reasonable hypothesis, but Musher didn't think it was right.

In 2007, 58 mushers finished the race, 23 dropped out and one was disqualified.

Andersen's place is the best since 1976, just a few years after the first race in 1973 when all the mushers were rookies.