How To Use Musher In A Sentence
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The team was like the "musher," lean and wild-eyed, after their four hundred miles of merciless driving.
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This wild and untrammelled expanse, over thousands of miles of uninterrupted trail, makes for a very intense wilderness experience for the mushers (racers).
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To complete the course, she'll depend on a musher riding ahead and radioing back warnings of low branches, obstinate moose, and open water.
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They react to the commands of their musher, acting as the steering, accelerator and brakes.
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Michael Musher, a National Weather Service meteorologist, said light snow in the Midwest and light rain elsewhere around the country could cause only minor problems.
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The gallery ends with a display contrasting an old-time musher with someone geared for modern dog sled travel.
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He was the mushers' choice for best sportsman among the pack, and he professed to be unable to see why.
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Iditarod trail between Anchorage and Nome, mushers drive their teams along the coast to Nome, an area of trail where storms can quickly move in from the Bering Sea and make or break a musher's dream of being crowned champion., the 2004 winner, pulled out of Kaltag 5 minutes after King.
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But they also tell their story in a style straightforward enough that readers will be swept up in the drama of how 20 mushers covered nearly 700 miles in about six days.
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From Unalakleet, the largest town on the Iditarod trail between Anchorage and Nome, mushers drive their teams along the coast to Nome, an area of trail where storms can quickly move in from the Bering Sea and make or break a musher's dream of being an Iditarod champion.
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Winning mushers incredibly cover the distance in just nine to 12 days.
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The dog-musher let go of him precipitately, with action similar to that of a man who has picked up live fire.
The Love-Master
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After an hour or so, the musher stopped to wait for the skiers to catch up.
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What was once the home of champion Alaskan "musher" Jessie Arnold is now a pile of charred logs and ashes.
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The word musher is derived from the French word 'Marche' yelled in French at the dogs in the eighteen hundreds, yet it's a Yukon Quest race symbol.
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Robb was recruited two years ago just after high school and says being a musher is his first real job.
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He is very much like a musher who is determined to win the iditarod race in Alaska, by getting rid of those sled dogs that are weak and clearing the obstacles.
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The mushers we work with all adore their animals.
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The dog-musher wore a moustache, but the other, a taller and younger man, was smooth-shaven, his skin rosy from the pounding of his blood and the running in the frosty air.
The Clinging Death
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Another rookie musher drawing attention was Newton Marshall, the first Iditarod competitor from Jamaica.
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People unfamiliar with sled-dog racing think the Iditarod is won by the best musher.
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Mackey was the ninth musher into this, the last of the Yukon River checkpoint before the race turns overland on the portage to Unalakleet on the Bering Sea.
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I'm finally back in my room and feeling a special sort of sympathy for Iditarod mushers.
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You can find modern racing sleds next to traditional Inuit komatiks, low-lying sleds where the musher simply packs his camping gear and sits down on top of it.
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WHITEHORSE - For the first time in the 27-year history of the Yukon Quest a musher hasn't been forced out of the dog sled race after six days on the trail from Fairbanks, Alaska to Whitehorse, Yukon.
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They're flown back to the race start, where they're kenneled until the musher or his or her representative collects them.
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On the day that mushers from around the world met in Anchorage for the 1150-mile ‘last great race on Earth’, some friends and I hurtled for 15 miles across the Norwegian mountains, feeling very brave indeed.
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From Unalakleet, the largest town on the Iditarod trail between Anchorage and Nome, mushers drive their teams along the coast to Nome, an area of trail where storms can quickly move in from the Bering Sea and make or break a musher's dream of being crowned champion.
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He had introduced me and a few other first-time mushers to dogsledding, and now I found myself listening to the excited baying of my dogs.
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So as the sun dropped and the temperature plummeted and the sensible people among us huddled around the fire eating frozen balls of butter and sugar (the musher's answer to energy bars), Wade trudged onto the ice with eelpout on his mind.
Mushing, Eelpout, and Butterballs
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Folsom's neighbor was a famous "musher," a seasoned, self-reliant man, thoroughly accustomed to all the hazards of winter travel, but ten miles from his destination he crossed an inch-deep overflow which rendered the soles of his muk-luks slippery, and ten yards further on, where the wind had laid the glare-ice bare, he lost his footing.
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More exciting and exotic is a dash across the tundra bundled on a dogsled between a musher and his muscular mutts.
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They must be able to make good decisions in guiding the team, and with a maximum of two to three hours of sleep each day, many mushers suffer from severe sleep deprivation, often resulting in failed concentration and hallucinations.
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Climbers atop Everest phone home via portable satellite dishes, while pocket-size global positioning systems guide mushers on the Yukon Quest trail.
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It was very exciting to watch as 10 teams took off with mushers from Wisconsin, Alaska, Yukon and Saskatchewan.
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Just 10 minutes earlier, Smith had introduced me and a few other first-time mushers to dogsledding, and now I found myself listening to the excited baying of my dogs, who obviously were more confident about dashing into the forest than I was.
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Most mushers start with the maximum-allowed team of 16 dogs but settle down to 12 to 14 for the main haul beyond Rainy Pass.
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This is a form of transportation that requires no motor but relies heavily on trust between a team of dogs and their musher.
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The dog team and its musher would go flying past.
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The dog-musher wore a mustache, but the other, a taller and younger man, was smooth-shaven, his skin rosy from the pounding of his blood and the running in the frosty air.
The Clinging Death
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The dog-musher wore a moustache, but the other, a taller and younger man, was smooth-shaven, his skin rosy from the pounding of his blood and the running in the frosty air.
The Clinging Death
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It is never difficult to forward mail in the north, for every "musher" is a postman.
Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories
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Several hours on the sled and I was beginning to consider myself a real hard-core musher.
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This wild and untrammelled expanse, over thousands of miles of uninterrupted trail, makes for a very intense wilderness experience for the mushers (racers).
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But we continued to zoom past the wooden posts with yellow bands on them, marking the no man's land, a two kilometre wide border between Finland and Russia where not even mushers may roam.
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The reindeer herdsman is a resourceful chap: he needs to be milker, butcher, skinner and musher.
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These fleet-of-foot canines think nothing of sprinting round a four-mile trail at 18 miles an hour, dragging a sledge bearing their human ‘musher’.
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Top mushers are always spying on each other, looking for ploys to shave time - like how the other guy gets 64 booties on and off his dogs at a rest stop.
