About 200 miles east of Kotzebue, Ambler is the midway point of the Kobuk 440 Sled Dog Race. Ambler volunteers put in sleepless nights to make the stop welcoming.
Musher DJ Starr shows photos of previous races and gives advice to Zander Downey as they sit together in The Boys and Girls Club in Ambler on Saturday, April 9, 2022.
Community members greet musher Jeff King as he arrives into Ambler during the Kobuk 440 sled dog race on Friday, April 8, 2022. “Look! Is this Jeff?” Anaya Dozette, 11, said, pointing toward the river. When the silhouette of Jeff King and his team came into focus and got closer, the three girls ran back toward the Boys and Girls’ building to see the racer up close and pet his dogs.
Some of the hats were sewn by sisters Helena Jones and Myra Upickson as they have done for several years. Jones said it was a task made more difficult this year because her sister Upickson grieved the loss of her son. The family was motivated, she said, to celebrate and maintain a village tradition that began when her mother, Clara Lee, started sewing for mushers in the early 1990s.
The Kobuk River winds its way behind Ambler on Friday, April 8, 2022. The line on the river at right is the Kobuk 440 sled dog race trail. “It’s always magical coming in here because it’s a beautiful area, but then you add 500 caribou to it, you’re just like Willie Wonka or something,” Neff said about the trail. “I was just out there laughing.”“I get a kick out of imagining what information dogs get when they smell things,” he said. “It happened a couple of times out of Kotzebue, I looked at the willows and the banks and never saw what it was that excited them.
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