Milaca’s Darcy Stanley-Nord career as a musher continues to grow as the now eight-year veteran to dog sledding is racking up top 10 finishes. Stanley-Nord and her family run Nord Star Racing based in Milaca. - Milaca, MN 
Milaca's musher racing towards Top 10 finishes
Darcy Stanley-Nord’a love for dog sledding started back in high school.
“I had a teacher in Princeton who was a musher; if we were good, she would let one of us feed the dogs, and that was really exciting for me as a kid and it always stuck in my mind,” Stanley-Nord said.
But it took years before Stanley-Nord, a Milaca resident, took action to pursure her outdoors dream.
Her interest peaked in 2012 after she read “Call of the Wild,” a book about dog sledding.
“They don’t talk about crashing or harnessing the dogs,” said Stanley-Nord, addressing the unexpected difficulties that the book failed to mention.
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