Jessie Royer

Bib Number: 20
Hometown: Seeley Lake, MT


Biography

Jessie Royer, 48, (Veteran) was born in Idaho. She grew up on a cattle ranch in Montana where she lived for twenty-one years. As a child she would harness her border collie Bear to pull firewood. She worked on ranches as a horse wrangler and horse teamster. She got her first sled dogs when she was 15 and 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 of 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. Royer’s other races include the Idaho Sled Dog Challenge, Wyoming Stage Stop, and Canada’s Northern Lights Challenge in addition to Alaska’s biggest sled dog races. Jessie has twenty-one Iditarod finishes, earning Rookie of the Year in 2001 and finishing in the top ten nine times. Her hobbies include horses, hunting and mounted shooting.

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2024 Standings

Checkpoint Time In Dogs In Time Out Dogs Out Rest Time Previous Layover Status Distance
Enroute Time Speed (mph) 8hr 24hr
Willow 3/03 14:36:00 16
Yentna 3/03 18:17:00 16 3/03 18:21:00 16 0h 4m 3h 41m 11.40 42
Skwentna 3/04 01:16:00 16 3/04 01:31:00 16 0h 15m 6h 55m 4.34 30
Finger Lake 3/04 10:12:00 16 3/04 10:15:00 16 0h 3m 8h 41m 4.61 40
Rainy Pass 3/04 13:39:00 16 3/04 17:35:00 16 3h 56m 3h 24m 8.82 30
Rohn 3/04 21:42:00 16 3/04 21:59:00 16 0h 17m 4h 7m 8.50 35
Nikolai 3/05 11:59:00 16 3/05 13:53:00 15 1h 54m 14h 0m 5.36 75
McGrath 3/05 23:15:00 15 3/05 23:19:00 15 0h 4m 9h 22m 5.12 48
Takotna 3/06 02:08:00 15 3/07 02:46:00 15 24h 38m 2h 49m 6.39 ✔ 18
Ophir 3/07 05:32:00 15 3/07 05:44:00 14 0h 12m 2h 46m 8.31 ✔ 23
Cripple 3/07 19:48:00 14 3/08 00:13:00 13 4h 25m 14h 4m 5.19 ✔ 73
Ruby 3/08 14:38:00 13 3/08 18:50:00 10 4h 12m 14h 25m 4.86 ✔ 70
Galena 3/09 02:07:00 10 3/09 10:07:00 10 8h 0m 7h 17m 6.86 ✔ ✔ 50
Nulato 3/09 16:22:00 10 3/09 20:21:00 10 3h 59m 6h 15m 5.92 ✔ ✔ 37
Kaltag 3/10 00:39:00 10 3/10 06:00:00 10 4h 21m 4h 18m 10.93 ✔ ✔ 47
Unalakleet 3/10 23:19:00 10 3/10 23:23:00 10 0h 4m 17h 19m 4.91 ✔ ✔ 85
Shaktoolik 3/11 05:35:00 10 3/11 10:19:00 10 4h 44m 6h 12m 6.45 ✔ ✔ 40
Koyuk 3/11 17:02:00 10 3/11 22:38:00 10 5h 36m 6h 43m 7.44 ✔ ✔ 50
Elim 3/12 05:19:00 10 3/12 09:27:00 10 4h 8m 6h 41m 7.18 ✔ ✔ 48
White Mountain 3/12 15:32:00 10 3/12 23:38:00 10 8h 6m 6h 5m 7.56 ✔ ✔ 46
Safety 3/13 06:38:00 10 3/13 06:39:00 10 0h 1m 7h 0m 7.86 ✔ ✔ 55
Nome 3/13 09:49:59 10 3h 10m 6.95 ✔ ✔ 22