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Yukon Quest/Iditarod 2006 - Tales from the Trail

March 4, 2006

 
2006 Iditarod Team

Tonight's email will be a short one, as bed is absolutely calling me tonight. Knowing, I guess, it will be a long time before I sleep on anything near as comfortable again!

Anyway, I did want to quickly announce the 16 dogs that will make up my 2006 Iditarod team.

They are - in ALPHABETICAL order - 

  Dog Status DOB/
Age
Sex Finished

Batdog
 Son of Iditarod Finishers Odie & Kaylinn

Rookie 3/13/02
4 yrs
(next week)
M  
Crunchie
Son of Iditarod Finisher Grover
2 Time Iditarod Veteran 6/6/01
4 yrs
M Iditarod 2004
Finisher
Dasher
Daughter of Iditarod Finishers Butch
& Kara
Iditarod 2005 Veteran 12/21/01
4 yrs
F  
Draco
Son of Butch
5 Time Iditarod Veteran 11/5/97
8 yrs
M 2 Time
Finisher
Hector 2 Time Iditarod Veteran 8/28/01
4 yrs
M Iditarod 2004
Finisher
Herman
Hector's brother
2 Time Iditarod Veteran 8/28/01
4 yrs
M Iditarod 2004
Finisher
Junior
Son of Grover
Rookie 7/14/02
3 yrs
M  
Kara
Daughter of Iditarod Finisher Striker
2 Time Iditarod Veteran 7/27/99
6 yrs
F Iditarod 2004
Finisher
Loki
Son of Striker
Kara's brother
4 Time Iditarod Veteran 7/27/99
6 yrs
M Iditarod 2004
Finisher
Moses 2 Time Iditarod Veteran 1/4/00
6 yrs
M Iditarod 2004
Finisher
Odie
Son of Striker,
Kara & Loki's brother
3 Time Iditarod Veteran 7/27/99
6 yrs
M Iditarod 2004
Finisher
Olena 2 Time Iditarod Veteran 7/28/00
5 yrs
F  
Skor
Son of Grover,
Crunchie's brother
Iditarod 2005 Veteran 6/6/01
4 yrs
M  
Snickers
Daughter of Grover,
Crunchie & Skor's sister
Iditarod 2005 Veteran 6/6/01
4 yrs
F  
Sprite
Daughter of Butch
Iditarod 2005 Veteran 7/1/01
4 yrs
F  
Surge
Son of Butch
4 Time Iditarod Veteran 12/27/98
7 yrs
M 2 Time
Finisher

I will try and write a little more in the morning, but just to let everyone know that the final, final decisions (which I went back and forth on numerous times) were done on the basis of experience over youth.

BTW - my Ceremonial Start team consisted of :

Kara - Dasher

Loki - Odie

Herman - Hector

Draco - Barq

Junior - Crunchie

Batdog - Q

Off to bed..

Karen

Photos by
June Price

Pictures from the Ceremonial Start

Photos by
Mary Curtis

2006CereTruck.jpg (168239 bytes) 
2006 Ceremonial Start

Map of the Ceremonial Start Route

 
 

Karen's Diary - Yukon Quest/Iditarod 2006 Edition


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