Biography
Louis Nelson, Sr., 65, an Inupiat Eskimo, was born and raised in Kotzebue, Alaska. He began mushing about 13 years ago and run the Kobuk 220 and 440 more than 10 times. Louis lives at camp year round, located 25 miles north of Kotzebue), primarily living a subsitence lifestyle. He operates Snowy River Kennels and has about 35 dogs. He shares dogs with his son, Darin, who owns and operates Kobuk Lake Kennel near Kotzebue. Together they train dogs to race mid distance races. Louis is married to Lulu. They have one child living at home, Alexa, 15.. He is retired.
Sponsors
Northern Air Cargo |
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 12:53:00 | 12 | |||||||||
| Willow | 3/02 16:36:00 | 16 | |||||||||
| Yentna | 3/02 20:07:00 | 16 | 3/02 20:10:00 | 16 | 0h 3m | 3h 31m | 11.94 | 42 | |||
| Skwentna | 3/02 23:22:00 | 16 | 3/03 05:05:00 | 16 | 5h 43m | 3h 12m | 10.63 | 34 | |||
| Finger Lake | 3/03 09:57:00 | 16 | 3/03 09:58:00 | 16 | 0h 1m | 4h 52m | 9.25 | 45 | |||
| Rainy Pass | 3/03 18:37:00 | 16 | 3/03 18:52:00 | 16 | 0h 15m | 8h 39m | 3.47 | 30 | |||
| Rohn | 3/03 23:36:00 | 16 | 3/04 07:08:00 | 16 | 7h 32m | 4h 44m | 10.14 | 48 | |||
| Nikolai | 3/04 16:52:00 | 16 | 3/04 22:18:00 | 15 | 5h 26m | 9h 44m | 7.71 | 75 | |||
| McGrath | 3/05 07:10:00 | 15 | 3/05 08:02:00 | 15 | 0h 52m | 8h 52m | 6.09 | 54 | |||
| Takotna | 3/05 10:59:00 | 15 | 3/06 11:34:00 | 15 | 24h 35m | 2h 57m | 6.10 |  |
18 | ||
| Ophir | 3/06 14:16:00 | 15 | 3/06 14:26:00 | 15 | 0h 10m | 2h 42m | 9.26 | |
25 | ||
| Cripple | 3/07 01:55:00 | 15 | 3/07 08:46:00 | 14 | 6h 51m | 11h 29m | 5.14 | |
59 | ||
| Ruby | 3/07 21:51:00 | 14 | 3/08 05:52:00 | 13 | 8h 1m | 13h 5m | 8.56 | |
|
112 | |
| Galena | 3/08 13:51:00 | 13 | 3/08 18:12:00 | 13 | 4h 21m | 7h 59m | 6.51 | |
|
52 | |
| Nulato | 3/09 04:26:00 | 13 | 3/09 09:49:00 | 13 | 5h 23m | 9h 14m | 5.63 | |
|
52 | |
| Kaltag | 3/09 16:03:00 | 13 | 3/09 22:40:00 | 12 | 6h 37m | 6h 14m | 6.74 | |
|
42 | |
| Unalakleet | 3/10 13:12:00 | 12 | 3/10 18:10:00 | 12 | 4h 58m | 14h 32m | 6.19 | |
|
90 | |
| Shaktoolik | 3/11 02:02:00 | 12 | 3/11 03:10:00 | 12 | 1h 8m | 7h 52m | 5.34 | |
|
42 | |
| Koyuk | 3/11 14:23:00 | 12 | 3/11 20:19:00 | 11 | 5h 56m | 11h 13m | 4.28 | |
|
48 | |
| Elim | 3/12 06:20:00 | 11 | 3/12 08:57:00 | 11 | 2h 37m | 10h 1m | 4.79 | |
|
48 | |
| White Mountain | 3/13 01:15:00 | 11 | 3/13 09:24:00 | 11 | 8h 9m | 16h 18m | 2.82 | |
|
46 | |
| Safety | 3/13 18:13:00 | 11 | 3/13 18:18:00 | 11 | 0h 5m | 8h 49m | 6.24 | |
|
55 | |
| Nome | 3/13 22:36:35 | 11 | 4h 18m | 5.12 | |
|
22 | ||||
