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  • Moose Stomps Iditarod Lead Dog and Jumps Into Sled

    02/04/2005 4:37:25 PM PST · by holyscroller · 84 replies · 3,421+ views
    Alaska Daily News ^ | January 26, 2005 | Unknown
    The Anchorage Daily News reports a moose on the Denali Highway stomped to death the lead dog of an Iditarod musher. Ramey Smyth’s as he zipped the dog into his sled basket with the early evening fading into a 50 degree-below-zero night. “I told him I loved him and not to forget me,” Smyth said. Mushers have reported numerous such encounters with moose in Alaska. The moose, Smyth said, “came down on him with both front feet, and then it just started with the rest of the team.” As the dogs rolled on, the moose came racing up the gangline,...