Plenty of mushing personalities -- including Jon Van Zyle, Lance Mackey, and the late Don Bowers -- swear to having had brushes with the supernatural along the Iditarod Trail.
In 1966, Helen Hegener's parents took her down to Fourth Avenue to watch Joe Redington Jr. win the World Championship Sled Dog Race, and she's been following sled dog races ever since, including sitting in on some of the organizational meetings for the first Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in 1973. In 2008 she and her husband, Mark, produced a video about repeat Iditarod and Yukon Quest champion Lance Mackey and were part of the media team covering the centennial running of the All Alaska Sweepstakes in Nome. In November 2009, Helen and mushing legend Tim White cosponsored the first Mushing History Conference in Anchorage. Helen and Mark make their home near Big Lake, but from mid-December through March they're usually somewhere out on a trail, following sled dog teams.
Check out her blogs at northernlightmedia.com and mushinghistory.wordpress.com.
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Have you ever wondered what the mushers eat while out on the trail?
