women mushers

"Tells the story of the author's hunger for remote, wild places, which take her across America and then to Alaska, where she finds her true home in its vast and rugged landscape. She and her husband build a log cabin miles from the nearest road; after tragic loss, Keith and her infant daughter must push on alone in the Alaskan backcountry. Long-distance dog sledding opens a door to a new existence . . . offers the best of all worlds by combining raw wildnerness with solitude and athleticism"--Publisher.

In 2009, after a crippling divorce that left her heartbroken and directionless, Kristin decided to accept an offer to live at a friend's cabin outside of Denali National Park in Alaska for a few months. In exchange for housing, she would take care of her friend's eight sled dogs. That winter, she learned that she was tougher than she ever knew. She learned how to survive in one of the most remote places on earth and she learned she was strong enough to be alone. She fell in love twice: first with running sled dogs, and then with Andy, a gentle man who had himself moved to Alaska to heal a broken heart.

Describes the annual dog sled race from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska, and the life of the woman who was the first person to win it for three consecutive years.

Follows the story of Debbie Clarke Moderow, who at the age of forty-seven entered the Iditarod for the first time and, less than 200 miles from the finish line, found that her beloved huskies no longer wanted to run. Desperate to figure out how she had lost touch with her dogs, Moderow spent the next two years training and reconnecting, and finally, after much hardship, human and canines finished the race.

Part adventure, part love story, and part inquiry into the mystery of the connection between humans and dogs, this book is a memoir of a woman, her dogs, and what can happen in the place between daring and doubt. Debbie Clarke Moderow ran the Alaskan Iditarod with her sled dogs in 2003 and 2005.

Rachael Scdoris recounts her experiences running the Iditarod Race as the only legally blind competitor, and reflects on how she has faced the challenges of blindness and excelled when no one else believed in her.

Jessie Arnold's disappointment over not being able to compete in the Alaskan dogsled racing season due to knee surgery is alleviated when she is asked to help man the Iditarod booth at the State Fair, until a dead body turns up, pulling Jessie into another mystery.

Ann Cook discusses the experiences she had while she and her husband trained a dog sled team to run the Yukon Quest in Alaska.

Describes the annual dog sled race from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska, and the life of the woman who was the first person to win it for three consecutive years.