Sled Dog Races a Mushing Success

Posted on 25. Mar, 2010 by Dave Quinn in Living

by Dave Quinn

A beautiful Kootenay weekend brought out more than 2,500 onlookers to take in the action at this year’s Bootleg Gap Sled Dog Races in Kimberley.

Kimberly's Bootleg Sled Dog Races raised close to $18,000 for the East Kootenay Children’s Fund. Photo courtesy Bruce Kirkby

“We had three less competitors than last year,” explains a grinning event volunteer John Boucher, “but at least two of those were in Whistler doing Olympic duties, so we can’t complain.”

The event, which included a silent auction, raised close to $18,000 for the East Kootenay Children’s Fund. This money will help cover expensive travel costs for children and families who need to travel for treatment.

The success of this event sure gives the many organizers, racers, and volunteers a lot to wag, er, brag about.

Lead photo courtesy Bruce Kirkby

Tags: B.C. Sled Dog Racing, East Kootenay Children's Fund, Kimberley's Bootleg Sled Dog Races

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Dave Quinn

The Kootenays Cranbrook-born Dave Quinn is a wildlife biologist and outdoor educator whose writing and photography explores human connections with wild places. For the past 16 years he has divided his time between his family and home office in Kimberley, guiding remote hiking and sea kayaking expeditions to the Canadian Arctic, Greenland, B.C.’s north coast and Patagonia and working as a field biologist with threatened and endangered species such as grizzly, lynx, badger, swift fox and mountain caribou. Recently he has focussed more on conservation work for Kimberley-based Wildsight, and for the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative.

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