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The Quest for Yukon Gold |
| Section: LIFE / SPORTS |
| Author: Ron Dalby |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1986 |
| Size: 2,574 Words, 13,915 Characters |
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What's a thousand miles? In terms of time it's a couple of days in a car or a couple of hours in an airliner. In terms of distance, it's about equal to a straight line between Washington, D.C. and Omaha. Such measurements, however, mean little to the thirty or more sled dog racers lining up in Fairbanks, Alaska, on February 22 to start the third annual running of the Yukon Quest.
For them a thousand miles is the distance from Fairbanks to Whitehouse, Yukon Territory, Canada, via Angel Creek, Circle Hot Springs, Circle, Eagle, Dawson and Carmacks. In history books those tiny towns figure prominently in turn-of-the-century Alaska and northwestern Canada.
Whichever man or woman with a team of up to twelve dogs can cover the 1,000 miles in the shortest time will win $15,000, an ...
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...y contested race to share campfires affects almost everyone, whether it means helping a stalled motorist or saving a life in the unforgiving landscape. Perhaps that's why it seems somehow fitting that the winner of 1984's Sportsman trophy could go on to win the race in 1985. A lot of folks are pulling for Runyan again in 1986. His chances are as good as anybody's, maybe better than most. vbcrlf
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