We Put a GoPro on Iditarod Champ Dallas Seavey’s Dogs—This is What Happened

Dallas Seavey took home his third Iditarod win early on Wednesday morning, beating out 60 other mushers for the coveted race title.

“It takes a whole team to get any of us here,” he told reporters at the finish line in Nome, Alaska following his 1,000 dog sled race across the state. That team included Seavey’s “athletes” his pack of highly trained Alaskan huskies.

Dallas Seavey’s champion Alaskan huskies are always ready to race. (Photo: Jo Piazza)

Seavey is the closest thing to Iditarod royalty that exists in Alaska. At age 25, he became the youngest musher to ever win the Iditarod, completing the race in nine days, four hours, 29 minutes, and 26 seconds. His father, Mitch Seavey, won the race in 2004 and 2013, and Dallas won it again in 2014.

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I visited Seavey earlier this month and got the chance to go mushing with some of his dogs.

Visitors to Seavey’s training center get the opportunity to get up close and personal with his champion huskies. Tourists can dog sled pretty much anywhere in Alaska, but it is rare to be able to sled with dogs who have competed in and won the 1,000-mile race. We strapped a GoPro camera to the dogs to get their point of view of running a race. Check out the video to see three amazing minutes of what it is like to be a mushing dog.

We used the GoPro Fetch harness to capture the action. (Photo: Jo Piazza)

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