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Jessie is a musher in the 2011 Iditarod.
Jessie was the first woman to finish of 95 mushers
in the 2008 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. She took
14th and won $29,100. She was once again the first
woman to finish in 2009 and took 8th.
Bio
Results
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Contact: www.huskypower.com/jessie
Bio
Jessie Royer, 32, 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
& 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 now has a kennel north of Fairbanks
with 65 dogs. Jessie has extensive mushing
experience including having won Montana's Race to
the Sky when she was only 17 and she was the winner
of the invitational La Grande Odyssee in France in
2005. She says her hobbies are horses, hunting,
mounted shooting, drawing, braiding and
photography.
Results
Jessie was the first woman to finish of 95
mushers in the 2008 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
She took 14th and won $29,100.
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