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The sport of racing sleds pulled by dogs over snow-covered cross-country courses, dogsled racing, developed from a traditional Eskimo method of transportation. Modern sleds are usually of wood (ash) construction, with leather lashings and steel- or aluminum-covered runners. The dogs used for pulling the sleds are most often Eskimo dogs, Siberian huskies, Samoyeds, or Alaskan malamutes; teams typically consist of 4–10 dogs. The course is usually 12–30 miles (19–48 km) long, though some, including the Iditarod, an annual dogsled race held in Alaska, are considerably longer.

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Recent Examples on the Web In Alaska, letter carriers rode on dogsleds until the 1960s; even now, mail is dropped into some towns by parachute. — National Geographic, "CREATE A FREE NAT GEO ACCOUNT TO CONTINUE READING," 18 May 2020 Visitors from surrounding villages and other places can only reach Nome by plane, boat and, sometimes, snowmachines or dogsleds. — Victoria Mckenzie, Anchorage Daily News, "Native women in Nome say police ignored rapes or failed to thoroughly investigate them," 12 Sep. 2019 Not a place for road trips The country’s towns and communities aren’t connected by a network of roads, Thestrup said, so travelers should be prepared to get around by plane, helicopter, boat or, in the winter, dogsleds or snowmobiles. — Hannah Sampson, Washington Post, "Everything travelers need to know about Greenland (which is not being bought by the U.S.)," 27 Aug. 2019 The creature Walton and his men had seen driving a dogsled was that form. — Steve Haycox, Anchorage Daily News, "Did you know that Dr. Frankenstein’s creation was a dog musher?," 11 Jan. 2018 Sune Stralberg, 66, is a national champion musher, a maker of dogsleds, and owner of Bjorkis Hundprodukter, a one-stop shop for organic kibble, spare sled parts, and dog leads and harnesses. — Josh Dean, Bloomberg.com, "How to Move a Town," 5 Sep. 2017

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