Iditarod’s smallest field in race history begs the question: Why so few? Longtime dog musher John Schandelmeier, who's also a columnist, weighs in. Take a listen:
: And it seems like a lot of folks point to the costs. I wonder, what does that take? And what are the things that have really gone up? I mean, I’m thinking about gas for running ATVs and things like that.: I keep a pretty close handle on costs, and I always, in the past, I figured that you could raise a dog team for $750 a year per dog. So if I had 40 dogs, that was, you know, a little over 30,000 bucks.
I mean, we’ve had sponsors over the years, and we couldn’t give anything in return, really. Like for instance, we were sponsored by Eukanuba for a few years, and I felt like, OK, so, is that gonna sell them enough dog food to cover the cost of sponsoring me? Which was, you know, valuable for us, but was it valuable for them? It never felt like it was. And then there’s, you know, how many people even go outside anymore? I mean, that’s what we see here.
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