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Sled Dog Days

by Nate Chute/Daily Inter Lake
| January 9, 2011 2:00 AM

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Abbey Parr adjusts the harness for one of the lead dogs on Linda Clarke's (Buena Vista, Colorado) team before they start their race.

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Josh Lancaster sits with his son Brogan, 4, in their own sled as a team runs by.

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Steve Riggs of Condon puts harnesses on his dogs before the start of the race on day one of the Flathead Sled Dog Days on Saturday, January 9, 2010 in Olney.

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Kurt Kress of Columbia Falls points out a team of dogs as they prepare to beging their race to his son Oliver, 2, on Saturday at the Flathead Sled Dog Days in Olney. Day two of the races will begin Sunday morning at 930 a.m.

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Emily Chambers 13, of Whitefish, plays with Logan, one of the dogs on Sara Parr's team on Saturday at the start of the Flathead Sled Dog Days race on Saturday in Olney. Chambers is in two of Parr's classes at Whitefish Middle School.

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A crowd of onlookers cheers as Dawn Breedlove of Bryant, Wisc., starts her race in the 10-12 dog class on day one of the Flathead Sled Dog Days Saturday in Olney. Breedlove’s time for running the 36 mile course was 2:53:22. She was in first place at press time.