ALASKAN DISCOVERY RV TOURS
RV Caravans to Alaska - the Last Frontier

 

 

 

SLED DOGS IN ALASKA 

Iditarod Dog Sled Race

Alaska Discovery RV Tours are Business Members and Sponsors of the Iditarod Sled Dog Race and our leader, Spike Fortier, is an Iditarod Trail Committee Member.   

During our tour, you will meet Susan Butcher's family and see the famous Trail Breaker Kennels ( www.susanbutcher.com ) and home to visit her "Iditarod dogs". There we will have a family style dinner, see a video of her life and learn interesting new facts about Dog Mushing.  We then go for rides at the Iditarod Headquarters with the Historic Iditarod family "the Redingtons".

Susan Butcher
Susan Butcher 		 Dave, Christana & Tekla 
Dave, Christana & Tekla - Susan's husband and Daughters are first out in bib number one during the 2007 Iditarod as a Memorial in Susan's honor		 Susan Butcher and Spike in 2002
Spike with Susan Butcher in 2002
























 

 

Dave, Tekla & Spike 2010

 

 

The Yukon Quest Dog Sled Race

The Yukon Quest dog sled race is a 1000 mile race from Whitehorse, Yukon Territory to Fairbanks, Alaska. Alaska Discovery RV Tours are also business sponsors for the Quest and sponsor Michelle Phillips, the famous Yukon Quest Musher. Dave Monson (Susan Butchers husband) has won the Quest and states that it is as tough if not tougher then the Iditarod. Michelle states that she will run the Iditarod after she wins the Quest. We wish her the best of luck.

We visit Michelle and her dogs during our tour where she shows and runs her dogs in Carcross, Yukon. She is an Author, Musher and is featured in the film Women of the Yukon Quest.

Michelle is entering the 2011 Iditarod dog sled race......we need to help push her into Nome. Please sponsor a dog: www.yukonhuskies.com/sponsorship.html

Michelle Phillips   Michelle and Spike
Famous Lady musher Michelle Phillips
with leaders Joel & Patches 

Michelle likes to humiliate Spike