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 ...

NEW PARIS — The Heartland Mushers Association Inc. has announced its partnership with Elkhart County Parks to offer a hands-on, two-hour dog mushing crash course for dog owners and outdoor enthusiasts ...

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 ...

MEXICO CITY – The classic musher, a person who races sleds pulled by dogs, trains in a winter wonderland – think Alaska, Norway or Canada. But when Mexican Raul Esquivel needed to tame his new ...

Dozens of canines howl in John Hanson Jr.’s dog yard, excited by the sound of a snow machine pulling up to the kennel. Hanson is one of a handful of dog mushers in New Stuyahok, probably the most ...

Feb. 18—It only took one ride to hook Ezra Engeberg, who was just 4 years old when he and his brother Asher got started mushing. "We used to go out to Chugiak and see the dog teams go out there, and ...

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 ...

HUSLIA -- With Iditarod coming to town, this tiny village did its best to make itself seem at least three times as big. About 300 people live in the Koyukon Athabascan village, but for those lined up ...

Alaska is known for its dog mushing, a winter pastime that usually requires snow, whether for competition, recreation, or tourism. In the summertime, some mushers run their dogs using wheeled dog ...

Katy Gehrke, 19, and Griffin Ferrell, 20, had no intentions of learning mushing when they enrolled at Michigan Tech University in Houghton, Michigan. “I didn’t even know mushing was a real thing,” ...

Rufio is 9, Rinoa and Gizmo are 8, Cowboy is 6, Tails is 5 and Maya is 2 1/2. Christian and Ashley Casillan have a team of huskies, but they live in Long Beach, not Alaska. What’s a family of huskies ...

From our "How To Do Everything" podcast: Scott Janssen crossed the finish line of the Iditarod sled dog race on Friday afternoon, one dog short. He had hoped Marshall, who'd been with Janssen since he ...