Karen Land
Bib Number: 65Hometown: Indianapolis, IN/Sand Coulee, MT
Website: http://www.mymusher.com/ws/home.php
Biography
Karen Land, 33, was born in Indiana. In 1995 she graduated from the University of Montana with a BFA degree. In 1999 she was working as a writer covering a rookie musher in Maine’s Can-Am Crown Sled Dog Race for a graduate program in non-fiction writing, when she “fell in love with the dogs and the competition.”
She met Terry Adkins there and has been working as a handler for him ever since. She says that after six months of “hanging out” with sled dogs and mushers, she knew what would come next for her “running dogs”.
Karen also enjoys backpacking, and in 1997 she spent six months hiking the Appalachian Trail with her best friend, her dog Kirby. “Kirby is why I am a musher,” says Karen. “I figured if I could have such a bond with one special dog, it would be great to explore the wilderness with 16.”
Karen, a freelance writer who contributes to the Outdoor Column in the Great Falls Tribune, is single. She lists her hobbies as long distance hiking and camping.
2002 Standings
| Checkpoint | Time In | Dogs In | Time Out | Dogs Out | Rest Time | Previous | Layover | Status | Distance | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enroute Time | Speed (mph) | 8hr | 24hr | ||||||||
| Anchorage | 3/02 12:20:00 | 12 | |||||||||
| Eagle River | 3/02 15:36:00 | 12 | 3h 16m | ||||||||
| Wasilla | 3/03 12:20:00 | 16 | 29 | ||||||||
| Knik | 3/03 13:28:00 | 16 | 3/03 13:30:00 | 16 | 0h 2m | 1h 8m | 12.35 | 14 | |||
| Yentna Station | 3/03 23:00:00 | 16 | 9h 30m | 5.47 | 52 | ||||||
| Skwentna | 3/04 04:34:00 | 16 | 15 | 34 | |||||||
| Finger Lake | 3/04 16:22:00 | 15 | 3/05 06:25:00 | 14 | 14h 3m | 45 | |||||
| Rainy Pass | 3/05 09:49:00 | 14 | 3/05 15:44:00 | 14 | 5h 55m | 3h 24m | 8.82 | 30 | |||
| Rohn | 3/05 20:19:00 | 14 | 3/06 08:20:00 | 13 | 12h 1m | 4h 35m | 10.47 | 48 | |||
| Nikolai | 3/06 23:59:00 | 13 | 3/07 09:05:00 | 12 | 9h 6m | 15h 39m | 5.94 | 93 | |||
| McGrath | 3/07 15:30:00 | 12 | 3/08 17:06:00 | 11 | 25h 36m | 6h 25m | 7.48 |  |
48 | ||
| Takotna | 3/08 19:14:00 | 11 | 3/08 23:29:00 | 11 | 4h 15m | 2h 8m | 10.78 | |
23 | ||
| Ophir | 3/09 02:00:00 | 11 | 3/09 09:13:00 | 11 | 7h 13m | 2h 31m | 15.10 | |
38 | ||
| Cripple | 3/09 21:08:00 | 11 | 3/10 11:02:00 | 11 | 13h 54m | 11h 55m | 5.03 | |
60 | ||
| Ruby | 3/11 00:22:00 | 11 | 3/11 11:25:00 | 11 | 11h 3m | 13h 20m | 8.40 | |
|
112 | |
| Galena | 3/11 17:37:00 | 11 | 3/12 07:25:00 | 11 | 13h 48m | 6h 12m | 8.39 | |
|
52 | |
| Nulato | 3/12 12:45:00 | 11 | 3/12 18:37:00 | 11 | 5h 52m | 5h 20m | 9.75 | |
|
52 | |
| Kaltag | 3/12 22:46:00 | 11 | 3/13 06:43:00 | 11 | 7h 57m | 4h 9m | 10.12 | |
|
42 | |
| Unalakleet | 3/13 19:55:00 | 11 | 3/14 07:14:00 | 11 | 11h 19m | 13h 12m | 6.82 | |
|
90 | |
| Shaktoolik | 3/14 13:05:00 | 11 | 3/14 18:00:00 | 11 | 4h 55m | 5h 51m | 6.84 | |
|
40 | |
| Koyuk | 3/14 23:49:00 | 11 | 3/15 07:21:00 | 11 | 7h 32m | 5h 49m | 9.97 | |
|
58 | |
| Elim | 3/15 13:00:00 | 11 | 3/16 09:56:00 | 11 | 20h 56m | 5h 39m | 8.50 | |
|
48 | |
| White Mountain | 3/16 15:46:00 | 11 | 3/16 23:53:00 | 11 | 8h 7m | 5h 50m | 7.89 | |
|
46 | |
| Safety | 3/17 06:23:00 | 11 | 3/17 07:03:00 | 11 | 0h 40m | 6h 30m | 8.46 | |
|
55 | |
| Nome | 3/17 09:55:22 | 11 | 2h 52m | 7.67 | |
|
22 | ||||
