Sled Dog Watchdog

'Too cold to stop and too cold to run'
["You have to make sure their balls don't freeze off" - Quest musher Phil Joy]

'Trucking dogs '"just too easy" for some'
[“Why would you send a perfectly happy dog team that trusts you into a blatantly dangerous situation?”]

'Turner scratches, Smidt yanked, and Kaduce disappears over the horizon'
[Smidt was withdrawn for “failing to provide the dog care expected of Yukon Quest mushers,” said race
marshal Doug Grilliot.]

'The world's toughest sled dog race lives up to slogan'
[“There were ice cracks out there a whole dog could fall into, easy.” - Lance Mackey]

'Circle checkpoint has tummies rumbling'/'Trail, what trail?'
[Quest trail "a little shy on markers" - Tagish musher Michelle Phillips]

'Trucks leak, but dogs and handlers blister'
[Trucks, not just humans and dogs, were among the frostbite casualties in the 60 below weather.]

'Dog race, or survival race?'
["The Quest has a huge budget, and it doesn’t hesitate to spend money on anything else, so maybe it
should spend some of it putting in a good trail." - Dawson musher Ann Ledwidge]

'Gold and Gertie's lead Mackey astray'
["I’ll spend 10 hours on dog care, 10 hours drinking Crown Royal and 10 hours at [Diamond Tooth]
Gertie's [Gambling Hall]” - Lance Mackey's plans for the Quest mandatory layover in Dawson City]

'Italian brothers move from mushing to movies'
["In my opinion, racing is not always fair to the dogs, especially long-distance racing." - Italian musher
Armen Ararad]

'Quest mushers need knees'/'The beaver beard'
[“I trapped a few beavers this year and their fur is so warm." - Alaska musher Brent Sass keeps warm with
his beaver face warmer and beaver jockstrap.]

'Now it's a race'
[Only three minutes separated the two competitors after a 14-hour, 169-kilometre sprint to the village
from Stepping Stone. - Race leaders Lance Mackey and Ken Anderson run the hell out of their dogs]

'Guimond, Ledwidge and Cotter get turned around'
[“They’re tough, but not tough-minded.” - Cor Guimond's dogs are "traumatized" by the race experience.]

'Mackey got lost outside Dawson'
[Lance Mackey 'apologizes to his dogs' after getting lost (yet again) - the dogs were forced to endure a
four-hour sidetrip. - Maybe a bit less Crown Royal next time, Mr. Mackey?]

'The Quest trail is not dog friendly'
["The bad trail hurt so many dogs.” - Dawson musher/dog handler Peter Ledwidge]

'Lost musher loses faith in Quest'
[“The race is not enough to kill yourself, or your dogs or someone on the highway — it makes no sense."
Musher Didier Moggia after ending up on highway due to poorly marked trail]

'Barefoot mushing, Mackey mad, and a rocky third place relationship'
[“They said there was overflow — they didn’t say there was rapids. The water was just rushing through
there, I’m surprised we weren’t swept away.” - Race winner Lance Mackey on the dangerous river overflow
conditions]

'Kaduce loses a dog in overflow'
[If he could have, Dan Kaduce would have scratched on the last leg of the Yukon Quest trail, according to
a Quest media release.]

'Alaskan Quest board blamed for dangerous trail'
[“This is a dog race, not an episode of Survivor. And it was over the top in some places.” - Alaskan
musher Kelly Griffin]

'Quest organization broke its own rules'
["When you have to rely on pure luck, it’s not a good race.” - Musher Paul Geoffrion gives up dog
mushing after 2008 Quest]