On a 1,000-mile journey across Alaska, it is just the musher and their four-legged buddies. However, in the effort to complete “The Last Great Race,” mushers sometimes need help from two-legged buddies.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -
“I broke my runner way back when, outside of Ophir and I have been kind of riding it like that for several hundred miles. The drag mat kind of ripped off a bit too, but I latched back on, so that has been a challenge,” Stoddard said while snacking his dogs. “... I’m hoping that my buddy Travis here — I talked to him, he said that he has a finishing sled here, and so he offered that one to me.”
“I mean it’s a race, but you want to help others out. So I can help him out with the sled and getting him down the trail, even though he’s going to beat me with my own sled,” Beals said while putting booties on his dogs before taking off on the trail. “It’s just something you do as a musher, you’re out here to help each other.”