Hugh neff biography
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There’s a story that circulates in Haines, Alaska, a small town hemmed in by year-round snowcaps and cold, clear, fish-rich waters on the northern edge of the Inside Passage. The story is always told third- or fourth-hand, but if its details have blurred or morphed over time, it still retains a core of truth, a local lesson, at its heart.It’s about a woman, a visitor to Haines, who emerged one summer morning from a monster RV with Texas plates. She was a big-haired bottle blonde, so the story goes, a caricature of a Southern suburbanite, and she cuddled a tiny, shrill dog as she greeted the Alaskan morning.
Then: a rush of air from powerful wings, an instant of confusion, maybe time for one shriek from the woman, and suddenly her manicured hands were empty, the unlucky dog’s yips fading in the distance as a bald eagle bore it away across the water.
The story’s lesson is clear: This is no country for tiny dogs. This is the land of the husky.
II.
Ever since I’d moved cross-country, from Ottawa to Whitehorse, capital of the Yukon, I’d been confronted by the reality of- •
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Anchorage musher Hugh Neff has scratched from the 2022 Iditarod at the Ruby checkpoint due to concern for his team, becoming the fourth musher to withdraw their team from this year’s race.
Anja Radano and Ryne Olson were the first two mushers to scratch, on Wednesday and Thursday, respectively. Rookie Julie Ahnen scratched on Friday morning.
“In conjunction with Iditarod Race Marshal Mark Nordman, Neff made the decision to scratch due to their concern for his race team,” an Iditarod spokesperson said in an email.
Neff’s dog team was running in third place on Friday morning. He had arrived in Ruby at 8:16 a.m. with 11 dogs on the line. Neff dropped a dog from his team at the McGrath, Ophir, and Cripple checkpoints after starting with 14, and the Iditarod announced that Neff had scratched at 11:40 a.m.
Neff was born in Tennessee and began mushing dogs in 1995 when he moved to Alaska. Currently based in Anchorage, Neff is running a team of dogs from Jim Lanier’s Northern Whites Kennel to “honor the legacy of Hobo Jim as well as all of the original Idita
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