WETMORE, Mich. (WJMN) – Mushing can start at any age. Elizabeth Beaverson started at the age of 7 when she was introduced to the sport by a family friend who is also a musher. “You know, I never ...

Doug Butler embraces one of his dogs, Dylan, a member of his sprint mushing team, at Butler's family farm in Middlebury, Vermont. (Tommy Hyde/Mosaic Films) The new movie "Underdog" tells the story of ...

Aaron Burmeister and his nine dogs race into Unalakleet in third place at 10:04 a.m. Sunday, March, 13, 2022. (Lex Treinen/Alaska Public Media) Just before midnight on March 15, Aaron Burmeister was ...

For fans of the Iditarod, there's a way to get up close to the sled dog race without ever going outside: fantasy mushing. It's a collaboration between coder David Hunt and musher Danny Seavey.

It's dirt trails, not snow, at the World Championships of Dry Land Mushing. Humans and canines race for the top prize at the championships, held for the first time in the United States. A musher ...

Libby Riddles' world is changing, but she's OK with that. Unusual weather is a continual curveball mushers like her have to deal with. Giant cruise ships are changing the same ways of life in her ...

Every winter, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan transforms. The snow settles over everything, muffling the usual sounds and creating a kind of hush that feels magical. As mushing season arrives, I find ...

On a January morning at 7 a.m., it was still dark in Bethel, Alaska. Far down the trail of the Bogus Creek 150 sled-dog race, the light of a single headlamp shone like a beacon. Fans, family members ...

Alaska's famous Iditarod sled dog race starts the first week of March. B.J. Leiderman, who writes our theme music, is not entered, but there is a website called Fantasy Mushing, where you get a ...

A musher usually drives a team of sled dogs across a thick blanket of snow, but a growing number of racers are finding that it's just as fun without the wintry weather. There's been a world ...