Alaska mushing icon Lance Mackey died yesterday at age 52. Mackey has long been a fixture in long-distance sled dog racing.
Mackey, who lived in the Fairbanks area, has been a fixture in long-distance sled dog racing for many years. He won the Yukon Quest four years in a row, starting in 2005. He’s also the only musher to win the Iditarod four straight years. The 1,000 races are held just a month apart. He became the only musher to win both races in the same year in 2007. And then he did it again the next year.
“Fully believe it is not my time yet,” he wrote, “and I’m still doing pretty good but I’m going to have a lot of things to get done in my life.”
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