Hardcore Huskies

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My new home! After years of saving I have finally moved into my own place near Talkeetna. The house, built by John Anderson, was finished on 11-1-2009.

Welcome to Hardcore Huskies!

Hello. My name is Heather Siirtola and I am the owner/operator of the The Hardcore Huskies racing team. The Team and I ran and completed our third consecutive Iditarod earlier this year. We finished in 51st place in 15 days, 11 hours 35 minutes.

Considering the weather this year, not bad for a small kennel up against the big boys! We hope to continue to improve and one day compete for the big prize.

We added some new members to the Hardcore Team in 2009 and expect to our time to significantly improve in future races.

Please check out our website. We are a small up and coming dog sled team. My kennel has about 35 dogs and we are located near Talkeetna Alaska.

I hope you will support us in our efforts. Thank you.

~Heather & the Hardcore Team

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Iditarod 38 Starts Today Without Hardcore Team

Sat, Mar. 6th, 2010

IDITAROD XXXVIII countdown to the start is now just hours away. At 10 am Saturday morning Alaska time, the first musher to leave the 4th Avenue in Downtown Anchorage will signify the end of an entire year’s worth of training for seventy one teams headed for Nome Alaska.

This year’s race features five Iditarod Champions including three-time Iditarod Champ Lance Mackey. Twenty eight of last year’s top thirty teams have also returned. They’ll be joined by a 22 rookie mushers including two (Wattie McDonald & Jonathan Stewart) from Scotland and one (Oswald “Newton” Marshall) from Jamaica.

One musher missing from this year`s event will be our own Heather ... [Read More]