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Jessie Royer

Bib Number: 35
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.


2004 Standings

Checkpoint Time In Dogs In Time Out Dogs Out Rest Time Previous Layover Status Distance
Enroute Time Speed (mph) 8hr 24hr
Anchorage 3/06 11:14:00 12
BLM 3/12 22:24:00 12 3/13 06:29:00 12 8h 5m 155h 10m ✔ ✔
Willow 3/13 12:45:00 12 3/13 18:28:00 10 5h 43m 6h 16m 4.95 ✔ ✔ 31
Yentna 3/14 01:17:00 10 3/14 07:05:00 10 5h 48m 6h 49m 2.49 ✔ ✔ 17
Skwentna 3/14 11:15:00 10 3/14 11:35:00 10 0h 20m 4h 10m 8.16 ✔ ✔ 34
Finger Lake 3/15 08:13:00 10 3/15 13:00:00 9 4h 47m 20h 38m 2.18 ✔ ✔ 45
Rainy Pass 3/15 18:49:00 9 3/16 02:33:00 9 7h 44m 5h 49m 5.16 ✔ ✔ 30
Rohn 3/16 09:23:00 9 3/16 16:24:00 9 7h 1m 6h 50m 7.02 ✔ ✔ 48
Nikolai 3/16 22:21:00 9 3/17 01:10:00 9 2h 49m 5h 57m 15.63 ✔ ✔ 93
McGrath 3/17 06:57:00 9 3/17 14:57:00 9 8h 0m 5h 47m 8.30 ✔ ✔ 48
Takotna 3/17 21:41:00 9 3/17 21:43:00 9 0h 2m 6h 44m 3.42 ✔ ✔ 23
Ophir 3/12 06:40:00 3/12 10:26:00 12 3h 46m -136h -3m -0.28 ✔ 38
Cripple 3/11 13:06:00 3/11 15:30:00 13 2h 24m -22h -20m -2.69 ✔ 60
Ruby 3/06 12:12:00 -124h -18m -0.90 112
Galena 3/07 11:06:00 16 52
Nulato 3/07 14:50:00 16 3/07 14:56:00 16 0h 6m 3h 44m 13.93 52
Kaltag 3/07 22:28:00 16 3/07 22:38:00 16 0h 10m 7h 32m 5.58 42
Unalakleet 3/08 09:17:00 16 3/08 09:35:00 16 0h 18m 10h 39m 8.45 90
Shaktoolik 3/08 12:49:00 16 3/08 19:05:00 16 6h 16m 3h 14m 12.37 40
Koyuk 3/08 23:25:00 16 3/09 01:30:00 16 2h 5m 4h 20m 13.38 58
Elim 3/09 16:15:00 16 3/10 00:40:00 15 8h 25m 14h 45m 3.25 48
White Mountain 3/10 06:10:00 15 3/10 06:12:00 14 0h 2m 5h 30m 8.36 46
Safety 3/10 08:44:00 14 3/11 10:40:00 13 25h 56m 2h 32m 21.71 ✔ 55
Nome 3/18 00:23:32 157h 43m 0.14 ✔ ✔ 22