Even if defending Iditarod champ Dallas Seavey doesn’t win his sixth crown this year, he’s not entirely sure how many more races he has in him.
Dallas Seavey with his five Iditarod Trail Sled Dog championship trophies at his home in Talkeetna. Seavey is tied with musher Rick Swenson for the most Iditarod victories ever at five, and is looking for his sixth title when the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race starts this weekend.
Seavey has his shot to make history in the 50th running of the Iditarod, which starts in Anchorage on Saturday. First run in 1973, the nearly 1,000-mile race takes mushers and their dog teams over two mountain ranges, the frozen Yukon River and treacherous Bering Sea ice to finish in the Gold Rush town of Nome on Alaska’s western coast.
Seavey grew up around mushing, and his family lore is steeped in the race. His grandfather Dan Seavey ran in the very first Iditarod and, now in his 80s, still mushes recreationally. Dallas’ father, Mitch, won titles in 2004, 2013 and 2017.But if Dallas Seavey doesn’t win his sixth crown this month after also winning in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2021, he’s not entirely sure how many more races he has in him.
“I’m still excited about mushing, maybe more so than I had before. I still want to keep growing as a musher, but Iditarod is only one way that we can be a musher,” said Seavey, who also operates a mushing tourism business in Talkeetna.The single dad said he wants to spend time with his daughter, who turns 12 in a few months.
Five-time Iditarod champion Dallas Seavey is shown Feb. 22, 2022, playing with Prophet, one of his lead dogs, at his kennel in Talkeetna, Alaska. Seavey is tied with musher Rick Swenson for the most Iditarod victories ever, and Seavey is looking for his sixth title when the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race starts this weekend in Alaska. “We don’t have to make some statement or big announcement or proclamation,” he said.“I feel like this is the last one for a while,” he said.
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