Jim Omdahl
Recent Races:
2019 Darby Derby
Personal Sponsors:
Grizzly Forest Products
Bio/Hobbies:
Fall Hunting, Winter Sledding, Spring fishing, Summer Boating.
Working as a farmer & lumber broker.
Alexandra Hall
Recent Races:
First timer!
Personal Sponsors:
MaidenMontana Jewelry
Bio/Hobbies:
I do leatherwork and beadwork for a living and on my spare time I am always out enjoying our public lands to the fullest. I love to fish + hunt + craft + cook + snowboard and have always dreamed of having my own sled team. This is my first year learning the trade and working with my dogs on the sport of skijor. Its been a fun ride so far and I cant wait to see where it takes us!
Brandi Williamson
Recent Races:
Darby Dog Derby and Priest Lake Sled Dog Races
Personal Sponsors:
“My wonderful family”
Bio/Hobbies:
My dog sled addition started when I moved to the Bitterroot valley and met Nicki Arndt. She invited me to bring my 3 Siberian huskies to the trailhead. She loaned me a lead dog and sled and we were off. The rest is history.
Other hobbies include running, camping, knitting, playing guitar and hanging out with my family. My dog Buck and I are currently attempting to make the US team for the IFSS World Dryland Championships in canicross, which I love because it's a wonderful mix of my two greatest hobbies dog powered sports and running!
Chris Williams
Bio/Hobbies:
Keena is a rescue dog from Wasilla, AK and loves to be out in the snow on and off leash! This will be our first skijor race!
Wendy Devent
Recent Races:
Storm the Castle, Run A Way, and Western Montana Dirty Derby
Personal Sponsors:
My Husband
Bio/Hobbies:
Started scootering 2 years ago. Got more into bikejoring this summer as we spent a lot of time in the mountains, but still enjoy scootering more. This is my first winter with a fat bike.
Teresa Petterson
Recent Races:
Priest Lake, Gold Rush Mail Run and Darby Dog Derby
Personal Sponsors:
Willing to accept one :)
Bio/Hobbies:
I started racing with a Greater Swiss Mountain Dog that could pull 5000 pounds so all I did for years was hang on for dear life. Currently, I'm a veterinarian that enjoys bird hunting and backpacking during the skijor off season. For the past two years we have completed a 50 mile course over three days skijoring with commemorative mail along with sled dog teams on the Gold Rush Trail in B.C.
Dan Hanks
Recent Races:
Priest Lake, Camp K, Darby Dog Derby
Bio/Hobbies:
Started out with a Border Collie to get him some exercise, our kennel has grown and we have traveled for team USA to the World Championship in Poland and in Ontario Canada. We are focused on the Dryland World Championships in Latvia in 2019.
Katherine Spencer
Recent Races:
Priest Lake and Darby Dog Derby
Personal Sponsors:
Rob Ramsay (Husband)
Bio/Hobbies:
I adopted my first GSP Scotia, she pulled me on the ice and gave me a concussion. I thought I can’t walk this dog what can I do? So I googled “dogsledding with 1 dog”. Now I have 4 GSPs and love to Skijor!
Jenny Howard
Recent Races:
Coming soon
Personal Sponsors:
Coming soon
Bio/Hobbies:
Coming soon
Geneva Lyon
Recent Races:
Stage Stop (8-dog Eukanuba Classic) and Priest Lake Race
Personal Sponsors:
“My husband Tim Snail”
Bio/Hobbies:
I live & train on Mt. Hood, Oregon, with my husband Tim, step-son Dillion, toddler-daughter Shade and 9 dogs. . This is my 15th year involved in dog-powered sports, and my 8th year racing.
Steve Riggs
Recent Races:
Darby Dog Derby and The Flathead Classic
Personal Sponsors:
Wendy Riggs
Bio/Hobbies:
It all started when I saw a used dog sled in the classified ads. I thought it would be fun to try it with my two dogs. I soon found out that I loved it, but needed more dogs. At one point, we had 42 dogs in our kennel, and I have completed two Race to the Sky 350, two Eagle Cap 200, and numerous 100 mile races. I am now slowing down and running five ten year old litter mates.
Clayton Perry
Recent Races:
Race to the Sky 300 (3rd place) and. Eagle Cap Extreme 200 (4th place)
Personal Sponsors:
Teton Lumber Co.
Bio/Hobbies:
59 year old, Home Center Owner. He started mushing for wilderness access to lion hunt and trap. Turned to competitive mushing 10 years ago. He’s married with 3 girls.
Kim Stanley
Recent Races:
Western Montana Dirt Derby and Priest Lake Race
Personal Sponsors:
Dog Power Sports
Bio/Hobbies:
I’ve been recreational mushing for about 8 years. I started after I rescued my first sibe then found my second and third.....
just this year we discovered dryland racing and have had a lot of fun with that!
Mikki Douglass
Recent Races:
Crystal Dog Challenge, Dogtown Derby and Priest Lake
Personal Sponsors:
“My great HUSBAND!”
Bio/Hobbies:
I am from Central Washington where I work as a field ranger on the Okanogan Wenatchee National Forest. I have been running dogs for over ten years. I started with Labradors and now race Eurohounds.
Lauren Peterson
Recent Races:
Flathead Classic 2018
Personal Sponsors:
CBI Health Lethbridge
Bio/Hobbies:
Lauren and Mica enjoy racing together and spending the weekends together in the snow. This is there second race together, competing in the Flathead Classic last year.
Jacqui Sutton
Recent Races:
“Tyson’s first race!”
Personal Sponsors:
Dan (Husband)
Bio/Hobbies:
I’ve been skate skiing and racing for 10 years, and skijoring with our dogs for 4 years. This is Tyson’s first race, as he’s training to compete next year at the Barkie Birkie skijor race at the American Birkiebiener.
Jed Stephensen
Recent Races:
Priest Lake Dogsled Race
Personal Sponsors:
My Wife Amy and my parents Doug and Judy Stephensen and my neighbor Mark who helps keep my trails open.
Bio/Hobbies:
Vision quest at age 9, an email to a musher at age 14, and glacier dog mushing at age 26 are the events that lead me to where I am now with dog mushing. Running Iditarod and the Quest are my future goals.
Eric Marsden
Recent Races:
Caledonia Classic, Barkerville Mail Run, Flathead Classic, Jack Hawthorn
Personal Sponsors:
Revelstoke dogsled adventures and all the guests who come out on tours with us.
Bio/Hobbies:
Ran as a guide for a bit and got outa dogs for a decade to travel, enjoy a carefree life and work overseas as a teacher / bird researcher.... missed Canada and decided to get back into dogs as a way to settle down. When life’s not gone to the dogs I enjoy my two beautiful daughters, snowboarding, climbing and staying in the wife’s good books!
Charlotte Sause
Recent Races:
Pacific NW Dryland Championships in Cle Elum, WA
Personal Sponsors:
Husband Brandt Clawson and fellow musher Geneva Lyon
Bio/Hobbies:
I started out mushing when fostering rescue dogs. I needed an exercise outlet that Northern Breeds excelled at. As I came to learn more about the sport, my appreciation for purpose-bred Alaskan Huskies grew. We now bikejor and skijor recreationally (at the moment most of our dogs are enjoying couch retirement), and look forward to a long future of growing in the sport while passing it down to my daughter.
Linda Pierce
Recent Races:
Darby Dog Derby, Wyoming Stage Stop
Bio/Hobbies:
I started running dogs in 2011.. with two skijor dogs.. I added dogs each year to go farther and faster.. my dogs have taken me to some incredible places both racing and tesining. I have thoroughly enjoyed my time on the runners and partnership developed with my team.. nothing like being on the trail with your closest friends.
Tegan McCowan
Personal Sponsors:
Mother
Bio/Hobbies:
Tegan was born into a Mushing family and has started running his own 2 dog team this winter at the age of 5. Tegan loves dogs and horses and anything else that involves being outdoors.
Butch Parr
Recent Races:
Flathead Classic 2018
Personal Sponsors:
Winter Woods Dog Sled Tours
Bio/Hobbies:
I met Jack Beckstrom and that is the end of the story! I like to build sleds, play with the dogs, and read non-fiction books.
Georgia Hall
Recent Races:
2016 West Yellowstone Rodeo Run, 2016 Novice Priest Lake (1st place),
2017 Flathead Classic One Dog Skijor (3rd place), 2018 Flathead Classic One Dog Skijor (2nd place), Handler @ 2019 Stage Stop
Personal Sponsors:
Tim & Karen Hall, Cody Hurley, Geneva Lyon, M&W Lodge
Bio/Hobbies:
Working on my hood with the mount hood hoodlums, a spring team owned and run by Geneva Lyon.
Sara Parr
Recent Races:
Flathead Classic 2018
Personal Sponsors:
Winter Woods Dog Sled Tours
Bio/Hobbies:
I got involved with dog sledding because my husband has a passion for this sport and it has become a part of our life and lifestyle through the years. We love it!
Stefan Buchwieser
Recent Races:
Caledonia Classic
Personal Sponsors:
Eric at Revelstoke Dogsled Adventures
Bio/Hobbies:
Just started 2 weeks ago, the wife and I came from Germany to visit friends for a month and it so happens our friends run a tour company here in B.C.
