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Karin was a rookie musher in 2009 and was the
first female rookie across the line. She finished
40th and is from Chugiak, AK, USA She
scratched in 2010.
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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.
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