Alaska Dog Mushers Association

Annamaet Gold Run to be held at Chena Lakes Rec Area.

The Gold Run will be held at Chena Lakes Recreation Area near North Pole, AK on Feb. 20-21. A map of the trail system can be found at this website: http://www.co.fairbanks.ak.us/ParksandRecreation/Forms/CLRA/CLRAWinterGuide-print.pdf
Distances will be as follows:
Skijor – 5.1 miles
4 Dog – 5.1 miles
6 Dog – 6.5 miles
10 Dog – 12 miles

Minimum purses set for championship races.

The following purses are the minimum guaranteed for each race. The fund raising committee is working hard to raise even more prize money.
Annamaet Gold Run – $3,000 sponsored by Annamaet Pet Foods.
North Pole Championships – $2,660 sponsored by F&E Taxidermy and Howling Dog Enterprises.
Limited North American Championships – $7,500
GCI Open North American Championship – $20,000 sponsored by GCI.

General Membership Meeting, Nov. 4, 2009

The weather has turned cool and the snow has started to fly. Two sure signs of the start of another mushing season. Come and catch up with friends and listen to a presentation from Dr. Arleigh Reynolds at the 1st ADMA General Membership Meeting of the 2009/2010 season.

Date:Wednesday, November 4th

Location: Mushers Hall on Farmers Loop Road

Time: Potluck 6:30 p.m. and Meeting 7:00 p.m.

For more information about the meeting check out our newsletter.

ADMA Newsletter

Live Streaming Audio of the International Sled Dog Symposium

Listening live? Ask the speaker a question!

Theater presentations at this year’s symposium will again be streamed on the Internet. The link to listen to the stream will be adma.no-ip.org:8000. Once there, click on the “Listen” link in the top menu bar.

Prior to the symposium and during some breaks, a stream of past sessions will be playing intermittently; during the symposium sessions, the stream will be live.

Listen Live to the Symposium (if it says the server is down, that means we’re experiencing technical difficulties, and we’re working to resolve the problem.)

To listen to these presentations, you’ll need appropriate software. There are a number of programs that will do the trick. On the Mac, iTunes is one choice; for Windows-based systems, we recommend Winamp. You may want to try entering the URL directly into your audio software, as it may give better results than going to the link via this web page.

Please take the time to answer the questions below about the quality and usefulness of the stream, so that we can improve next year. Email your answers to Ken Severin. You can also post your experiences to the comment area of this page.

Computer description (make, model, speed, memory)
Your connection type (T1, DSL, modem, cable modem)
Your audio player software
Audio quality (perfect, OK, broken-up but useable, too broken-up to listen, nothing)
Did you find the stream useful (and did it make you want to come to the symposium?)
Any other comments

Symposium recordings

Would you like a permanent record of what you heard over streaming audio? Symposium audio recordings of theater presentations are available for sale from Sled Dog Studio, including several years’ worth of past symposium sessions.

Our thanks to GCI, Sled Dog Studio, and Ken Severin for this year’s streaming audio.

Lead actor Pius Savage to attend Spirit of the Wind screening

Pius Savage will join us for the showing of “Spirit of the Wind” on Friday night, Oct. 9th. He is the actor who portrayed George Attla in the movie and also starred in “White Fang”. This will be a very special event having the main characters and actors together, some of which haven’t seen each other since the movie was made.