A racer guides his team toward the finish line at the annual Priest Lake Sled Dog Race on Sunday. (Photo by CAROLINE LOBSINGER) - Priest Lake, Idaho 
Annual races prove doggone fun
Tom Palmer remembers his first sled dog race.
"My first race, I was miserable," the longtime Inland Empire Sled Dog Association member said as he watched the action at Sunday's Priest Lake Sled Dog Race, the final day of the two-day event.
Palmer and his wife showed Siberian huskies and every time they saw one friend at the shows, she'd tell them they need to try the sport. Finally, Palmer told his wife they would go to a race and that would be the end of it. They'd be able to tell her they'd looked into it but it wasn't for them.
So they grabbed their dogs and hit the road. Once they arrived, they walked around and talked to the different folks, with Palmer going one way and his wife another. When they reconnected, his wife told him she'd entered him in the race.
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