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Jessie Royer

Bib Number: 3
Hometown: Seeley Lake, MT
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Biography

Jessie Royer, 46, was born in Idaho. She grew up on a cattle ranch in Montana where she lived for 21 years. She worked on ranches as a horse wrangler and horse teamster. She says she got her first sled dogs when she was 15. She started learning about dogs from Doug Swingley whom she worked with for a couple of years. She had dogs in Montana seven years before moving to Alaska in the spring on 1998. She won Montana’s Race to the Sky when she was only 17, and she was the winner of the invitational La Grande Odyssée in France in 2005. She says her hobbies are horses, hunting and mounted shooting.


2008 Standings

Checkpoint Time In Dogs In Time Out Dogs Out Rest Time Previous Layover Status Distance
Enroute Time Speed (mph) 8hr 24hr
Anchorage 3/01 10:04:00 12
Willow 3/02 14:02:00 16
Yentna 3/02 17:54:00 16 3/02 18:02:00 16 0h 8m 3h 52m 10.86 42
Skwentna 3/03 02:29:00 16 3/03 02:34:00 16 0h 5m 8h 27m 4.02 34
Finger Lake 3/03 07:42:00 16 3/03 07:46:00 16 0h 4m 5h 8m 8.77 45
Rainy Pass 3/03 17:13:00 16 3/03 17:17:00 16 0h 4m 9h 27m 3.17 30
Rohn 3/03 22:18:00 16 3/04 05:01:00 15 6h 43m 5h 1m 9.57 48
Nikolai 3/04 13:57:00 15 3/04 21:20:00 14 7h 23m 8h 56m 8.40 75
McGrath 3/05 03:57:00 14 3/05 03:59:00 14 0h 2m 6h 37m 8.16 54
Takotna 3/05 06:45:00 14 3/06 09:54:00 14 27h 9m 2h 46m 6.51 ✔ 18
Ophir 3/06 12:06:00 14 3/06 13:34:00 14 1h 28m 2h 12m 11.36 ✔ 25
Cripple 3/06 23:12:00 14 3/07 07:10:00 14 7h 58m 9h 38m 6.12 ✔ 59
Ruby 3/07 16:45:00 14 3/08 00:45:00 13 8h 0m 9h 35m 11.69 ✔ ✔ 112
Galena 3/08 07:37:00 13 3/08 12:05:00 12 4h 28m 6h 52m 7.57 ✔ ✔ 52
Nulato 3/08 19:26:00 12 3/09 01:24:00 12 5h 58m 7h 21m 7.07 ✔ ✔ 52
Kaltag 3/09 07:40:00 12 3/09 11:40:00 12 4h 0m 5h 16m 7.97 ✔ ✔ 42
Unalakleet 3/10 01:17:00 12 3/10 06:09:00 12 4h 52m 13h 37m 6.61 ✔ ✔ 90
Shaktoolik 3/10 12:45:00 12 3/10 17:22:00 12 4h 37m 6h 36m 6.36 ✔ ✔ 42
Koyuk 3/11 00:45:00 12 3/11 06:10:00 12 5h 25m 7h 23m 6.50 ✔ ✔ 48
Elim 3/11 13:14:00 12 3/11 15:02:00 11 1h 48m 7h 4m 6.79 ✔ ✔ 48
White Mountain 3/11 21:32:00 11 3/12 05:42:00 11 8h 10m 6h 30m 7.08 ✔ ✔ 46
Safety 3/12 12:50:00 11 3/12 12:54:00 11 0h 4m 7h 8m 7.71 ✔ ✔ 55
Nome 3/12 16:00:20 11 3h 6m 7.10 ✔ ✔ 22