Training’s done and it’s time for the real thing. Dallas Seavey and his team begin the 1,150-mile Iditarod.
What do you do when you are fully loaded, ready to start a long, hard haul in extreme conditions and your power plant is a dog?
If you’re Dallas Seavey, you add 15 more dogs and let ‘er rip!
On his 20th birthday, Seavey mushed 16 sled dogs off the start line of Alaska’s 2007 Iditarod sled dog race and headed out into 12 days of extreme, often unpredictable adventure across 1,150 miles of scary desolation and stunning beauty. With him went one of the best-known names in the trucking industry: J.J. Keller.
“If it hadn’t been for the Keller sponsorship I could not have raced,” says Seavey. “I was very fortunate; I had the best sponsor. I’d raced in 2005 and I wanted to race again, but I couldn’t afford it. That sponsorship made a dream a reality.”
J.J. Keller’s president and long-time Iditarod fan James J. “Jim” Keller met Seavey in Alaska six months earlier when Keller and his wife took their 30th wedding anniversary trip, an Alaskan Cruise.
Rosanne Keller found the Seaveys’ dog team tour business online and set up a tour at a cruise stop.
