Thursday, January 31, 2013

Aaron Peck leads Int'l Pedigree dog sled race

Aaron Peck of Grand Prairie, Alberta, is in first place on the sixth day of the International Pedigree Stage Stop Sled Dog Race. Peck and the other mushers are racing near Big Piney and Marbleton in western Wyoming on Thursday. Buddy Streeper of Fort Nelson, British Columbia is in second place in the race and Lars Lindh of Sweden is in third. Jerry Bath of Lander has moved to 8th place. Streeper said he spent three weeks training for the race in Yellowstone to get used to racing at high altitude. The nearly 350-mile race ends Saturday near Evanston.

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