How To Use musher In A Sentence
- Most mushers start with the maximum-allowed team of 16 dogs but settle down to 12 to 14 for the main haul beyond Rainy Pass.
- They're flown back to the race start, where they're kenneled until the musher or his or her representative collects them.
- On the day that mushers from around the world met in Anchorage for the 1150-mile ‘last great race on Earth’, some friends and I hurtled for 15 miles across the Norwegian mountains, feeling very brave indeed.
- From Unalakleet, the largest town on the Iditarod trail between Anchorage and Nome, mushers drive their teams along the coast to Nome, an area of trail where storms can quickly move in from the Bering Sea and make or break a musher's dream of being crowned champion. - Latest Popular Stories, Instablogs Community
- He had introduced me and a few other first-time mushers to dogsledding, and now I found myself listening to the excited baying of my dogs.
- So as the sun dropped and the temperature plummeted and the sensible people among us huddled around the fire eating frozen balls of butter and sugar (the musher's answer to energy bars), Wade trudged onto the ice with eelpout on his mind. Mushing, Eelpout, and Butterballs
- Folsom's neighbor was a famous "musher," a seasoned, self-reliant man, thoroughly accustomed to all the hazards of winter travel, but ten miles from his destination he crossed an inch-deep overflow which rendered the soles of his muk-luks slippery, and ten yards further on, where the wind had laid the glare-ice bare, he lost his footing. Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories
- More exciting and exotic is a dash across the tundra bundled on a dogsled between a musher and his muscular mutts.
- They must be able to make good decisions in guiding the team, and with a maximum of two to three hours of sleep each day, many mushers suffer from severe sleep deprivation, often resulting in failed concentration and hallucinations.
- Climbers atop Everest phone home via portable satellite dishes, while pocket-size global positioning systems guide mushers on the Yukon Quest trail.
