Famous Mushers
Josie, Gillian, and Ainsley
Susan Butcher
- Completed first Iditarod in 1988
- She went on to win grueling race in 1986, 1987, 1988,1990
- She made a foundation called National women's sports foundation
- Placing in the top 5 in twelve times
- She died august 5, 2006 from cancer
Robert Sorlie
- 47 years of being a firefighter
- He won March 16, 2005 his second Iditarod race
- He has 16 dogs to start and when he got to a Checkpoint the dogs where tired
- Not born in the united states
- His uncle did the Iditarod
Training
- At 10 weeks they start harnessing the dogs so it can get more comfortable
- At 4 months they can pull a light weight object
- Whoa means to stop
- Hike means to move forward
- gee means to turn right
- Haw means to turn left
Training puppies
Intresting facts
- The famous mushers make 69,00 and a new truck
- The race last 9 to 15 days
- The Iditarod is known as the last great race on earth
- the race is over 1150 miles
- temperature's that can reach far below zero
- 16 dogs per musher
- Iditarod is an Indian name meaning 'clear water'
- 18 years to mush
Works Cited
- D'Oro, Rachel. "Arduous Iditarod Demands Mushers' Tactics, Tricks." Ketchikan Daily News. 04 Mar. 2013: n.p. SIRS Discoverer. Web. 04 Apr. 201
- Royte, Elizabeth. "Mush, Mush, Mush, Dammit, Mush!." Outside. Dec. 1996: 120+. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 05 Apr. 2016
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Susan Butcher." Bio.com. A&E Networks Television, 2016. Web. 31 Mar. 2016.