Mushers Add Another Alaska Race To Schedule

For rural Alaska mushers, the race season is starting to wind up. In January, there’s the Kuskokwim 300 Sled Dog Race. In April, the Kobuk 440. Now in February, mushers will have another rural race in which to compete. The Norton Sound Sled Dog Club in Unalakleet is organizing the inaugural Paul Johnson Memorial Norton Sound 450 that will start in Unalakleet and end in Nome.

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Laureli Kinneen is a reporter at KNOM in Nome.

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