News Cut

Embracing winter: The Beargrease

Posted at 1:01 PM on March 11, 2013 by Bob Collins (0 Comments)

We hope by now you've seen the delightful pictures of the John Beargrease Sled Dog race up north. Find them here. Pay particular attention to this picture, showing the team of Blake Freking of Finland, MN.

One thing we've learned from the video uploaded (today) of musher Blake Freking: Mushers appear to be incredibly polite people.

Freking has three teams in the race. You can follow the progress of the mushers here. We learn that Freking left Sawbill this morning around 9:30, on a 51-mile leg.

Here's a fine essay on the man for whom the race is named.


Post a comment

The following HTML tags are allowed in your comments:
+ Bold: <b>Text</b>
+ Italic: <i>Text</i>
+ Link: <a href="http://url" target="_blank">Link</a>
Fields marked with * are required.


Comment Preview appears above this form upon pressing the "preview" button. Edit your comment and press "preview" again, until you are satisfied with your comment.

Your comment may not appear on the blog until several minutes after it was submitted.

March 2013
S M T W T F S
          1 2
3 4 5 6 7 8 9
10 11 12 13 14 15 16
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 28 29 30
31            


Master Archive

MPR News
Radio

Listen Now

On Air

Morning Edition®

Other Radio Streams from MPR

Classical MPR
Radio Heartland

Services