Keynote speakers Harris and Ginger Dunlap will give a three hour presentation on genetics. We are also bringing in Dr. Michael Davis from Oklahoma State University to talk about the studies he has done during the Iditarod. And there will be many more sessions to choose from. Check back for updates.
This site is very cool, we can do so many things. Still learning, Thank you to Dave Partee for setting this up!
The 2009 ADMA Thank You party is Saturday, May 30th at the Mushers Hall. Doors open at 6 pm and the movie, Spirit of the Wind, starts at 7 pm. Great food and a ton of door prizes!
A big hydro-axe like brush cutter (the size of a very big front end loader) will start work on two sections of the ADMA trail on Monday, April 20th.
Walking the equipment to the work site will probably make ruts in the trail and the work will scatter debris around. Our permits require the work to [...]
Two men came to mind after Egil Ellis achieved Open North American Championship immortality on Sunday — George Attla, with whom he had been tied at eight wins, and Bengt Ellis, his late father who introduced the Swede to mushing.
An emotional Ellis hugged one of his leaders, Ruby, and his wife, Helen Lundberg, after dramatically [...]
Sub-zero temperatures, wind and longer distances didn’t slow down the leaders on the final day of the Gene’s Chrysler Limited North American Championship sled dog races.
The leaders after two days all pulled away from their challengers in the third and final heat of the three-day race Sunday at the Jeff Studdert Racegrounds.
That means that Jennifer [...]
Another beautiful day for racing produced another stellar set of results as the Alaska Dog Mushers Association wrapped up the first weekend of championship racing on a sun-splashed Sunday afternoon at the Jeff Studdert Racegrounds.
After two days of racing on the ADMA trail system, Becky Voris (skjoring), Jennifer Probert (six-dog mushing), and Christian Taveau (10-dog [...]
The largest field of the season turned out Sunday for the final Alaska Dog Mushers Association Annamaet Challenge Series race of the season on Sunday at the Jeff Studdert Racegrounds.
A field of 34 dog teams and six skijorers raced in the final event prior to the start of the championship season.
Nine teams, many of which [...]
Egil Ellis stepped into a whole new world Sunday afternoon on a sunny Second Avenue in downtown Fairbanks.
By winning the GCI Open North American Championship sled dog race for the eighth time in 11 years, the Willow musher tied the legendary George Attla for the most victories in the 63-year history of the longest consecutively [...]
After nearly two decades of competing at the Gene’s Chrysler Limited North American Championships, Pennsylvania’s Rob Downey finally won.
Downey beat out defending eight-dog champ Christian Taveau on Sunday to take the title.
“Like my dad always said ‘The blind squirrel finds the acorn once in a while,’” Downey laughed to well-wishers after the race.
Taveau, a formidable [...]