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Photo courtesy of Dean Paron
The John Beargrease Cub Run was held Saturday, January 21 at the Lakeview National Golf Couse in Duluth. Some 24 mushers 14 and under vied for prizes in age group races that covered between 2.2 miles and one quarter of a mile.
Mike Keyport, Grand Portage, greeted the young mushers before the Cub Run. Mike is the great-grandson of John Beargrease, the legendary Anishinaabe musher who carried the mail between Two Harbors and Grand Marais during the last twenty years of the 19th century, and whom the race is named for.
The other featured races are the Beargrease 40 and Beargrease 120. While the Cub Run is a building block for longer races, at about 400 miles, the longest sled dog race in the lower 48 is the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon. The first musher will leave from Billy’s Bar in Duluth on Sunday, January 29, at 10 a.m. racing through the hilly boreal forest to Grand Portage where the victor will be crowned champion of the 39th running of this iconic event.
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