Susan Butcher's Champion dogs by danapommet
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The Chena Indian Village also doubles as a sled dog training area for Susan Butcher's Champion dogs. Or it did in July 1986 when I took this photo. Susan Howlet Butcher, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts December 26, 1954 and lost her fight against leukemia and graft-versus-host disease on August 5, 2006. She was an American dog musher, noteworthy as the second woman to win the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in 1986 and again in 1987, 1988 and became the second four-time winner in 1990, and the first to win four out of five sequential years. She is commemorated in Alaska by the Susan Butcher Day (the first Saturday of every March - the traditional start of the Iditarod each year). The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, a grueling 1,112 to 1,131 mile race through arctic blizzard conditions across the Alaskan wilderness, which tests the endurance of both mushers and dogs over the course of one to two weeks. Info from Wikipedia. Photo recently scanned.
Thanks for stopping by, taking a look and for all your previous favs and comments.
They are very much appreciated.
Dana
Comments (20)
Fantastic capture! interesting and inspiring narrative. It's a shame that the champions and the good ones go early....
Excellent Info and a Great Pov of this Wonderful Capture!
WOW Dana...I love dogs, an absolutely great scene, excellent captured!
Cool!!! :)
Wonderful capture and foto , Dana ! Great info !
this is wonderful shot and a very good pov
Wonderful dogs and a great lady, but too cold for me.
With a name like that I bet the dogs really love her!!! Lol. Nice shot and great POV.
So interesting!
Beautiful dogs and photo.
Excellent Info and a Great Pov and capture
Very nice shot and pov. :)
fantastic POV!!
My cousin lived in Alaska and was there for the Iditarod. She took some great shots of Susan as she readied to leave the starting point. I got a lot of information on that race since my cousin and Susan had a mutual friend and thanks to a light plane, they were able to make the finish of the race as well. Great shot of Susan and her dogs!
They race Siberian Huskies here, they look like Malamutes???
Fine POV in this shot of Susan and her mushers, Dana! She died much too young.
interessant!!
Love it great POV Dana!
Excellent POV and capture!
Great capture Dana!!