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Bio
2016
Karin Hendrickson, 45, was
raised in the small mountain town of Mt. Baldy,
California. She has a BA in Environmental
Conservation from the University of Colorado at
Boulder and has worked in environmental regulation
since 1998. For the last 10 years, she has been an
environmental manager here in Alaska and lives
north of Willow.
I saw my first sled
dog in March, 2002, when I came up to volunteer for
Iditarod. By 2003, I had sold everything I owned,
quit my job, and moved to Alaska to become a
handler. After two years as a handler, I tried to
quit my dog habit. That didnt last
longI was miserable without
dogs!
I started building
my own team in 2006. I really never expected to do
any racing, much less run the Iditarod! I am not
too sure how it all happened, but just two years
later I found myself signed up for my first
Iditarod. 2016 will be my fifth time to leave the
starting line of The Last Great Race. I
was hit by a truck while training last fall and
broke my back in three places. Luckily all my dogs
were O.K., but I wasnt able to run in 2015. I
am working hard to overcome my injuries and make it
back on the trail in 2016.
I am one of a very
few mushers to work full-time through the winter.
My biggest challenge is trying to fit training and
racing in around the demands of my job. It is just
this side of impossible to get everything done, but
somehow we make it happen.
Before dogs, she says she
used to telemark ski, rock climb, white water
kayak, train horses, hike and all kinds of other
outdoor sports. Now she spends so much time with
her dogs that she doesnt have time for other
hobbies.
Hometown: Wasilla,
AK
Karin Hendrickson, 41, was
born and raised in California. She graduated from
the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1991 and
has lived in Idaho and Colorado working as a
teacher and college student. She now works in
Environmental Regulation here in Alaska, where she
moved in 2003 to be a handler. My mom had
been coming to Alaska to volunteer for the Iditarod
since 1998, long before I knew a thing about sled
dogs or how they would take over my life. In 2002,
she talked me into coming up to volunteer. I
returned to volunteer again in 2003 and that is
when I knew my future. I sold my house and
everything in it, quit my job and headed north. I
spent two years learning the ropes and paying my
dues as a handler. I really thought Id
quit dogs and get a real life after that, but I was
miserable, so I started building my own team in
2006, but not with any plans to race. Then I
decided to race in the Iditarod just once. Well,
that was fun, so I figured Id do it one more
time. By now, Im starting to realize that I
need to run dogs to feel like meso here we go
again. Before dogs, she says she used to
telemark ski, rock climb, white water kayak, train
horses, hike etc. Now, she says between working
full time and training, she barely has time to
sleep. Karin is married to Varan Hoyt.
Karin Hendrickson, 38, was
born and raised in California. She graduated from
the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1991 and
has lived in Idaho and Colorado working as a
teacher and college student. She now works in
Environmental Regulation here in Alaska, where she
moved in 2003 to run dogs. "My mom had been coming
to Alaska to volunteer for the Iditarod since 1998,
long before I knew a thing about sled dogs or how
they would take over my life. In 2002, she talked
me into coming up to volunteer. I returned to
volunteer again in 2003 and that is when I knew my
future. I sold my house and everything in it, quit
my job and headed North. I spent two years learning
the ropes and paying my dues as a handler. I loved
the lifestyle and running dogs - then I got to run
a race (the 2005 Tustumena 200) and that got me
hooked even worse. For the last couple of years
I've been working on building my own kennel and
racing my own dogs. Now I have a small kennel of
talented young dogs, and it is time to shoot for
the Iditarod." Before dogs, she says she used to
telemark ski, rock climb, white water kayak, train
horses, hike etc. Now, she says between working
full time and training, she barely has time to
sleep. Karin is married to Varan Hoyt.
Results
Karin finished 40th in 2013, 26th in 2012,
scratched in 2010 and 2011. Karin was a rookie
musher in 2009 and was the first female rookie
across the line.
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