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A qamutiik (Inuktitut: ᖃᒧᑏᒃ; [1] alternate spellings qamutik (single sledge runner), komatik, Greenlandic: qamutit[2]) is a traditional Inuit sled designed to travel on snow and ice. It is built using traditional Inuit design techniques and is still used in the 21st century for travel in Arctic regions. The word "qamutiik" comes from ...
The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, more commonly known as The Iditarod (/ aɪˈdɪtərɒd /), is an annual long-distance sled dog race held in Alaska in early March. It travels from Anchorage to Nome. Mushers and a team of between 12 and 16 dogs, of which at least 5 must be on the towline at the finish line, [1] cover the distance in 8–15 days ...
Kicksled with child. The kicksled or spark is a small sled consisting of a chair mounted on a pair of flexible metal runners that extend backward to about twice the chair's length. The sled is propelled by kicking (sparka or sparke in the Scandinavian languages) the ground by foot. There is a handlebar attached to the top of the chair back.
Mushing. 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. Numerous types of sleds are used, depending on their function. They can be used for dog sled racing. Traditionally in Greenland and the eastern Canadian Arctic the ...
Nov. 18—When John Rasmussen joined the Alaskan Sled Dog & Racing Association, the organization's clubhouse was spartan — a bare-bones building that generated heat from the crowds that would ...
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] It involves the timed competition of teams of sled dogs that pull a sled with the dog driver or musher standing on the runners.
Ramy " Ray " Brooks (born December 24, 1968 [1] in Fairbanks, Alaska) is an Alaska Native kennel owner and operator, motivational speaker, and dog musher who specializes in long-distance races. He is a two-time runner up in the 1,049+ mi (1,600+ km) Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race across the U.S. state of Alaska, and a former winner of the 1,000 ...