300 Mile Race
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Charmayne Morrison
Charmayne Morrison is a 21 year old musher from Bozeman, Montana. She has been mushing for 8 years, running the Junior Race to the Sky and finishing the 2019 and 2020, 100 Mile Race to the Sky in third place. In 2020, she was the Rocky Mountain Triple Crown 8 Dog Champion. She started working with dogs as a project in middle school and ended up getting hooked. She opened up a tour company with her fiancée, Eric, who is entered in the 100 mile Race to the Sky.
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Clayton Perry
Clayton Perry is a 63 year old retiree from Power, Montana. He has been mushing for 24 years and races Alaskan huskies. His dogs are from Swingley/Redington background. In the lead will be Butte and Libby. He has received the Best Cared for Team Award and Sportsmanship Awards at the Race to the Sky. He also won first place at the Eagle Cap Extreme and second, third and fourth places at the Race to the Sky in recent years.
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Jessie Royer
Jessie Royer is a 46 year old dog musher from Seeley Lake, Montana. She has been mushing for 31 years, racing Alaskan huskies from her kennel, The J Team. She has raced and won the Race to the Sky six times, winning the 500 mile race when she was a young teenager and winning the Race to the Sky 300 each time she has entered. She has many finishes in Iditarod, finishing last in third place and heading back to Iditarod this March.
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Erik Oline
Erik Oline is a 23 year old fly fishing guide and college student from Missoula, MT. This is his second year learning about dog mushing and running tours for Jessie Royer. He will be running dogs from J Team Kennel, all Alaskan huskies. In his spare time, he likes to ski, tie flies and fish. This is his second Race to the Sky, finishing the 100 mile race last year and running the 300 mile race this year.
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100 Mile Race
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Christina Gibson
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Aidan Torres
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Kevin Daugherty
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Christina Gibson is a 22 year old dog trainer from Carlton, Washington. She has been mushing for 8 years and races Alaskan huskies. In the lead will be Windshear, Farce, Lilly and Bear. She received the 2022 Sportsmanship Award at the Copper Dog 150, the NW Sled Dog Association’s Best Kept Team Award. She won the 2018 Junior Race to the Sky 100 and finished last year’s 100 Mile Race to the Sky in first place.
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Aidan Torres is a 26 year old general contractor from Okanogan, Washington. This is his second Race to the Sky 100 and is running Alaskan huskies out of Whiteout Racing Kennel. He has been mushing for 3 years and got his start handling for Christina Gibson. In the lead will be Nellie and Brother. This is his second Race to the Sky 100, finishing the 100 last year for the first time.
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Kevin Daugherty is a 32 year old excavation worker from McCall, Idaho. He has been mushing Alaskan huskies for 5 years. In the lead will be Toska, Ruth and Socks. He won the Sportsmanship Award in 2020 at Idaho Sled Dog Challenge. This is his second Race to the Sky.
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Maddie Longpre-Harrer
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Nicole Lombardi
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Chris Adkins
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Maddie Longpre-Harrer Is a 19 year old musher and tour guide from Power, Montana. This is her second year running sled dogs and her first year racing Alaskan huskies from Clayton Perry’s TSA Kennel near Power, Montana. In the lead will be Ovando and Benchmark. This is her first Race to the Sky 100.
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Nicole Lombardi Is a 40 year old food safety innovation scientist for pet food. In the lead will be Sanchez, Star, Fred, Mufasa, Gobi and Bobbie. She races Alaskan huskies primarily Swingley line with some Thurston, Turner, Bruggeman and Campeau mixed in. She finished her first Race to the Sky 100 in second place last year. She also raced the Triple Crown last year and received honors for running all three races, the Idaho Sled Dog Challenge, the Eagle Cap Extreme and Race to the Sky 100.
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Chris Adkins is a 54 year old lumber yard worker from Sand Coulee, Montana. He will be running his alaskan huskies. He Has run the Race to the Sky at least twelve times, finishing anywhere from second to tenth place. He started running dogs when he was four years old through his dad, Terry.
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Eric (Bucky) Hasty
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Jesika Reimer
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Hunter Hale
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Eric (Bucky) Hasty is a 24 year old horse farrier from Bozeman, Montana. He has been mushing for 3 years after working at a tour kennel. This year, his fiancé, Charmayne and he, opened up a touring operation called Morrison Racing Kennels, near Bozeman. He will be racing Alaskan huskies. This is his second Race to the Sky 100.
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Jesika Reimer is a 42 year old wildlife biologist from Emigrant Gap, California. She has been mushing for 8 years, racing Alaskan huskies for two years. She finished in first place at the 2022 Eagle Cap Extreme 64 Mile Race and got her start skijoring with a couple of dogs. This is her first Race to the Sky 100.
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Hunter Hale is a 19 year old guide from Seeley Lake, Montana. He has only been mushing for three months, racing Alaskan huskies from The J Team kennel (Jessie Royer). This is his first race and first Race to the Sky.
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Shane Pearson
Shane Pearson is a 57 year old farm and ranch manager. He has been mushing dogs for 15 years, running husky mix dogs from Swingleybloodlines. In the lead will be Seeley and Huckleberry. Huckleberry was on the Fb page for the White House Made in America when he was a puppy with Pam Beckstrom and received over 250,000 hits. He has been a volunteer for Race to the Sky for at least six years on the trail crew. This is his first Race to the Sky 100.
Wade Donaldson
Wade Donaldson is a 31 year old guide from Coalville, Utah. He has been a musher for 6 years, racing Alaskan huskies. He ran the Idaho Sled Dog Challenge in 2022 and placed third in this year’s Idaho Sled Dog Challenge. In the lead will be Rip and Olive. This is his first Race to the Sky 100.
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Adrian Lopez
Adrian Lopez is a 23 year old fisherman from Seeley Lake, Montana. He will be running Alaskan Huskies from The J Team Kennel (Jessie Royer). He is pretty new to mushing, running tours for Jessie this winter. He is excited to run his first Race to the Sky 100.
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Thomas Blackham
Thomas Blackham is a 36 year old engineer from Terreton, Idaho. He has been mushing for ten years, running Alaskan huskies. In the lead will be River and Wiley. He recently completed the Eagle Cap Extreme 100 and the Idaho Sled Dog Challenge. He will be competing for the Rocky Mountain Triple Crown. This is his first Race to the Sky 100.
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