Age: 27

Experience: Rookie

Residence: Kasilof, Alaska

Occupation: Musher, carpenter

Kennel Name: Paul Gebhardt's Morning View Kennel

What do you love most about running sled dogs?
The amazing athletic ability of the dogs, their heart and drive, adventure, and our unique relationship with our K9 family.

Age: 25

Experience: Rookie

Residence: Big Lake, Alaska

Occupation: Dog musher

Kennel Name: Apex Kennel

What do you love most about running sled dogs?
The challenge and competition.

Web site: http://www.jakeberkowitz.com

Age: 28

Experience: Rookie

Residence: Carcross, Yukon

Occupation: Guide

Kennel Name: Persistence Kennel

What do you love most about running sled dogs?
Never knowing what's going to happen!

Web site: http://www.persistencekennel.wordpress.com

Age: 54

Experience: Veteran

Residence: Healy, Yukon

Occupation: Dog musher/tour guide

Kennel Name: Dalton Gang

What do you love most about running sled dogs?
Taking a young inexperienced dog team and watching them grow stronger and more confident.

Web site: http://www.daltongangkennels.com/

Age: 36

Experience: Rookie

Residence: Fairbanks, Alaska

Occupation: Fisheries biologist

Kennel Name: Squid Acres Kennel

What do you love most about running sled dogs?
Exploring Alaska and seeing what the dogs are capable of.

Web site: http://www.dogpaddledesigns.com

Age: 23

Experience: Veteran

Residence: Fairbanks/Eureka, Alaska

Occupation: Dog handler

Kennel Name: Wild and Free Mushing

What do you love most about running sled dogs?
Dogs, the constant switch between chaos and calm.

Web site: http://www.wildandfreealaska.com

Age: 41

Experience: Veteran

Residence: Two Rivers, Alaska

Occupation: Musher, carpenter

Kennel Name: Team Tsuga Siberians

What do you love most about running sled dogs?
Winter. Teamwork. Can always do better, even if not faster ...

Web site: http://www.teamtsuga.com

Age: 48

Experience: Rookie

Residence: Russia

Occupation: Wrestling Coach at Chukchi Children Sports School

Kennel Name: Running a team from Russel Bybee's Moose Crossing Kennels

What do you love most about running sled dogs?
I like going through snow blizzards when I trust myself and I trust my lead dog. In good weather, it is the vistas around us.

Age: 39

Experience: Rookie

Residence: Whitehorse, Yukon

Occupation: Dog sledding guide

Kennel Name: Alayuk Kennel

What do you love most about running sled dogs?
Training and sharing adventures into the wilderness

Web site: http://www.marcelle-fressineau.com

Age: 43

Experience: Rookie

Residence: Clam Gulch, Alaska

Occupation: Carpenter

Kennel Name: No Limits

What do you love most about running sled dogs?
I love it all.

Age: 41

Experience: Rookie

Residence: Big Lake, Alaska

Occupation: Dog musher/tour guide & operator with Coastal Helicopters in Juneau

Kennel Name: Apex Kennel - Owner: Jake Berkowitz

What do you love most about running sled dogs?
The dogs and camping with them.

Web site: http:www.trentherbst.com

Age: 39

Experience: Rookie

Residence: Whitehorse, Yukon (from Japan)

Occupation: Road constructor

Kennel Name: Ginga Express Kennel

What do you love most about running sled dogs?
I love camping with dogs.

Age: 24

Experience: Rookie

Residence: Roros, Norway

Occupation: Farm substitute

Kennel Name: Team Racing Beringia - along with the Russian musher Michael Tep'lin

What do you love most about running dogs?
Running through the mountains, that is some of my favorite time.

Web site: http://www.racingberingia.com

Age: 62

Experience: Veteran

Residence: Two Rivers, Alaska

Kennel Name: Johnson River Kennel

What do you love most about running dogs?
Spending time with them.

Age: 41

Experience: Veteran

Residence: Fairbanks, Alaska

Kennel Name: Mackey Kennel Inc.

What do you love most about running dogs?
The freedom, the beauty and the love of dogs!

Web site: http://www.mackeykennel.com

Age: 54

Experience: Veteran

Residence: Two Rivers, Alaska

Occupation: Dog musher, carpenter

Kennel Name: SP Kennel

What do you love most about running dogs?
The challenge of doing your best with the dogs doing their best team effort.

Web site: http://www.spkdoglog.com

Age: 44

Experience: Veteran

Residence: Tok, Alaska

Occupation: Dog musher, public speaker, writer

Kennel Name: Laughing Eyes Kennel

What do you love most about running dogs?
Freedom, the magic the Greatland and Yukon share with us.

Web site: http://www.laughingeyeskennel.com

Age: 43

Experience: Rookie

Residence: Willow, Alaska (from Cezch Republic)

Occupation: Guide, dog driver

Kennel Name: Moon Run Kennel, Jim and Bonnie Foster

Why do you love most about running dogs?
They are like three musketeers, one for all and all for one.

Web site: http://www.moonrunkennel.com

Age: 49

Experience: Rookie

Residence: Divide, Colo.

Occupation: Computer engineer

Kennel Name: Black Diamond

What do you love most about running dogs? Finishing

Web site: http://www.blackdiamondsleddogs.com

Age: 32

Experience: Veteran

Residence: Eureka/Fairbanks, Alaska

Occupation: Dog mushing, tourism guide, cabin builder, landlord

Kennel Name: Wild and Free Mushing

What do you love most about running dogs?
The places the dogs take me and the relationships I build with the dogs.

Web site: http://www.wildandfreealaska.com

Age: 47

Experience: Rookie

Residence: Chukotka, Russia

Occupation: Marine mammal hunter and musher

Kennel Name: Racing Beringia - along with the Norwegian musher Joar Ulsom

What do you love most about running dogs?
Dogs are not only for racing. We go fishing and hunting together, I cannot even imagine my life without my dogs.

Web site: http://www.racingberingia.com

Age: 39

Experience: Rookie

Residence: Two Rivers, Alaska

Occupation: Carpenter

Kennel Name: Slo-n-Eazy Kennel

What do you love most about running dogs?
The bond I have with my dogs especially on the trail - I love my dogs

Web site: http://www.slo-n-eazykennel.blogspot.com

Age: 38

Experience: Veteran

Residence: Two Rivers, Alaska

Occupation: Bartender

Kennel Name: Cosmic Canines

What do you love most about running dogs?
Getting out with the dogs in the wilderness. You can't beat it. The scentery is beautiful and the dogs are amazing.

Web site: http://cosmicanines.blogspot.com/

Age: 30

Experience: Rookie

Residence: Dawson City, Yukon

Occupation: Ferry deckhand

Kennel Name: B-line Racing Kennels

What do you love most about running sled dogs?
Being part of a team. Different challenges every time I get on the runners.

Web site: http://www.blinekennels.com