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Mushing is a sport or transport method powered by dogs. It includes carting , pulka , dog scootering, sled dog racing , skijoring , freighting , and weight pulling . More specifically, it implies the use of one or more dogs to pull a sled , most commonly a specialized type of dog sled on snow , or a rig on dry land.
A musher riding a dog sled in Røros, Norway, during a sled dog race. A dog sled or dog sleigh [1] is a sled pulled by one or more sled dogs used to travel over ice and through snow, a practice known as mushing.
Sled dog racing (sometimes termed dog sled racing) is a winter dog sport most popular in the Arctic regions of the United States, Canada, Russia, Greenland and some European countries. [1]
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King moved to Alaska in 1975 and began racing in 1976. He won the Yukon Quest in 1989, and the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in 1993, 1996, 1998, and, at age 50, the 2006 Iditarod, [2] making him the oldest musher to have ever won the event, a distinction he held until 2017, when Mitch Seavey won at age 57.
Petter Karlsson (born 6 September 1975) is a Swedish musher and world champion in long-distance sled dog racing.He has won the Finnmarksløpet dog sled race four times (2016, 2018, 2023 and 2024).
Didier Moggia was the first musher to start the 2008 Yukon Quest in Fairbanks, Alaska.. The Yukon Quest, formally the Yukon Quest 1,000-mile International Sled Dog Race, is a sled dog race scheduled every February since 1984 between Fairbanks, Alaska, and Whitehorse, Yukon, switching directions each year.
On April 25, 1998, the governor of Alaska, Steve Cowper, declared April 29 as George Attla Day. [12]Attla was the focus of the movie Spirit of the Wind. [13]He inspired the 2017 single "You Got to Run (Spirit of the Wind)", a collaboration between Buffy Sainte-Marie and Tanya Tagaq.