Sentences with musher
mush·er
M m - 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.
- The dog team and its musher would go flying past.
- 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.
- The mushers we work with all adore their animals.
- 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.
- Climbers atop Everest phone home via portable satellite dishes, while pocket-size global positioning systems guide mushers on the Yukon Quest trail.
- 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.
- The gallery ends with a display contrasting an old-time musher with someone geared for modern dog sled travel.
- They react to the commands of their musher, acting as the steering, accelerator and brakes.
- It was very exciting to watch as 10 teams took off with mushers from Wisconsin, Alaska, Yukon and Saskatchewan.
- Winning mushers incredibly cover the distance in just nine to 12 days.
- 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.
- To complete the course, she'll depend on a musher riding ahead and radioing back warnings of low branches, obstinate moose, and open water.
- 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.
- As the 13th musher in the Iditarod sled dog race crossed.