Photo provided by Evan Smith MTU Mushing Club member Steven Beauprey finishes with his team in eighth place in the 40-mile Tahquamenon Country Sled Dog Race. The club is beginning its second year of racing. - Houghton, Michigan 
Learning experience MTU mushing season underway
The race season is underway for Michigan Technological University’s mushing club, which competed in its first race of the season last weekend.
Student-led teams finished fifth, sixth and eighth in their division in the 40-mile Tahquamenon Country Sled Dog Race at the Muskallonge Lake State Park in Newberry.
At times, as many as 60 members will be out at Tom and Sally Bauer’s kennel, which works with the club, said club member Christian Stevens.
Members pick their own level of involvement. Some gravitate to mushing. Others prefer handling the dogs. Of the 10 members who could come out over winter break, seven were handlers.
“It’s just as much work as mushing,” Stevens said. “I’d say the handlers are doing the majority of the work, waking up at 1 in the morning to feed dogs, stuff like that.”
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