Hi, my name is Justin fink and I am going to run the Jr. Iditarod in Alaska. I live in Gladwin, Michigan and will be training from September to the day of the race.  I will be participating in many races before then to get me ready for it. I have been ‘mushing’ for 3 years now and have done very well. I placed in the top 5 in all of my races last year. I took 4th in the Jack Pine-30 race in Marquette, MI.

The race will be a total of 174 miles with a team of my best 10 dogs.  I will attempt to compete against the best in the sport.   

I have been a Boy Scout for 3 years and in that time I have earned my Eagle Scout award in Troop 779. I am currently a Venture Crew 7799 LHAC (Lake Huron Area Council). In my 4 years of scouting I have earned 49 merit badges and 4 palms.   All of my Boy Scout experiences should be helpful in this race.

The way I started dog sledding was my sister  had wanted sled dogs for a wile so she found this sprint club called M.U.S.H. we went there to find  some of the nicest people that you could ask for. They gave my sister a ride on a rig and from there on we were hooked. One of the people pointed us in the direction of some dogs. We started off the kennel with 5 sprint dogs. We soon started attending races & rig sessions. But soon wanted more dogs, more miles, and more challenge.

Soon after that decision was made we went to a boy scout camp with our Council and was asked to help a guy with a demo about you guessed it dog sledding and he just had to bring his best dog in that I soon found out was for sale. So we did the demo and after the demo was done he said that he was looking to get rid of some dogs well being me I jumped on that admittedly. Well then we had 7 more dogs  but the difference was these dogs had ran the Iditarod in 2007 so these were not in the least bit sprint dogs so we started to up the miles and get more dogs and do more races. We had help from so many people along the way that there are to many to mention I thank all the people that got me here I could not do this without you. All of the little and big things matter to me so thank you!