The first day of the Grand Mesa Summit Challenge Sled Dog Race took place Saturday off the Mesa Top Trail parking lot off Colorado Highway 65 on Grand Mesa. More than 30 racing teams will compete in this weekendâs events.
The race will continue today starting at 8 a.m. and will wrap up about 2 p.m. Bundle up, it was 7 degrees when I got to the race early Saturday morning. This is a fun, family friendly event. The trail to the start and finish lines are a short walk on packed snow. A food truck provides sandwiches, snacks and drinks. Please leave your dogs at home.
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Each year, students from across the Ketchikan School District test their skills in a bookish battle.
The Battle of the Books program is presented through the Alaska Association of School Librarians. Each spring, AASLA releases a list of books tailored for student participants in kindergarten through 12th grade, and the students have the majority of the year to read all the books on the list.
Then, in the fall, at the beginning of the next school year, students form teams and engage in âbattlesâ (of) involving trivia about the books with other students from competing teams in their same grade bracket.
Diehl leads Kusko 300, Bailey leads Summit Quest 300 in dueling sled dog races Author: Anchorage Daily News
Print article On a day offering two mid-distance sled dog races in Alaska, Richie Diehl of Aniak held a narrow lead late in the Kuskokwim 300 and Jodi Bailey of Chatanika owned a narrow lead early in the Summit Quest 300. Diehl is among 13 mushers racing for a fat purse of $160,000 in the Kusko, one of the most prestigious mid-distance races in the sport. The race started Friday evening in Bethel and is expected to end there Sunday morning. Five teams, including six-time champion Pete Kaiser of Bethel and nine-time champion Jeff King of Denali Park, had made their third of four stops at a checkpoint near Tuluksak by 7 p.m. Saturday. They’ll visit the checkpoint one more time before making the final run to the finish line.
16 dog teams set to leave windy Bethel en masse for the start of the Kusko 300
Print article Volunteers on snowmachines hauled straw and other supplies while doubling as trailbreakers Thursday in preparation for this weekend’s Kuskokwim 300 sled dog race in Bethel. Strong winds buried both the race trail and the road that organizers planned to use to take supplies to a checkpoint being set up about 30 miles outside Tuluksak, race manager Paul Basile said. Thursday brought winds of 24 mph and stronger to the area, and Basile said the forecast calls for continued wind through the weekend. “It’s definitely changed our logistics the last couple of days,” he said. “We’d really been hoping to get a lot of our supplies and some of our volunteers to our Tuluksak checkpoint by truck.