Tag: Alaska

A musher from Saint-Tite, Martin Massicotte, is about to hit the road for Alaska where he will be on the starting line, next March, of the Iditarod, the longest and most difficult dog sled race in the world. • Read also: Ice rescue training at -33 degrees Celsius for firefighters in the Eastern Townships Since his first participation in March 2020 in the race which spans 975 miles (1569 km), the musher, who sports the same steel blue eyes as his dogs, has changed his training completely. “The training I've done this year is really race-based with campsites, straw, dog blankets; we sleep outside, we leave with short stops, quantities of food. Everything has been established. I worked on that, in fact, not just this year, but also last year, all winter, ”he de...