Race To The Sky 2021 canceled
By: MTN News
and last updated 2021-01-12 09:42:57-05
HELENA â Organizers of Race To The Sky, one of Montana s longest-running sled dog races, say the event has been canceled for 2021.
The Race To The Sky is held each February, and is run between Lincoln and Seeley Lake.
Organizers said on Facebook Monday that the race has been canceled due to COVID-19 restrictions, and that they were looking forward to racing again in 2022.
Race to the Sky started in 1986 as the Governorâs Cup Sled Dog Race, and commemorates the Camp Rimini War Dog Reception and Training Center, which was set up in advance of the World War II invasion of Norway.
CURT SYNNESS
For the Independent Record
World War II veteran Dave Armstrong turned 100 years old last Monday, and the local living legend was treated with a Zoom birthday party with several of his closest friends to celebrate the occasion.
Armstrong helped train sled dogs at Camp Rimini during the war, and as a co-founder of the âRace to the Skyâ sled dog race he was a two-time recipient of the Race to the Sky Sportsmanship Award, in 1990 and 1995.
The Montana Military Museum published a new calendar featuring Armstrong, and his friends at the facility at Fort Harrison have also designated 2021 as âThe Year of Dave Armstrong.â