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Dean Osmar was the first dog musher from the Kenai Peninsula to ever win "The Last Great Race" in 1984 and it would be twenty years before...
East Side Set-netter 'No weakling here can take a chance They're weeded out like chaff No beardless youth or city dude Can stand the hard, hard gaff. Men and women with lots of guts, my lad- Crew that never cry For they have to fight from dawn to night Or else go down and die. With a twenty foot skiff On the rough and dangerous surf You have to pull like sin- The roaring waves will be your grave If ever you give in. You fight like hell with never a yell
...Beemuns, Bub's Pizza, Central Emergency Services, Chez Moi, Coffee Roasters, Cortney Katzenberger, Davis Block, Dean Osmar, Dr. Bauder, ERA, Eva Knutson, Grant Air, Hilton Homewood Suites, Home Depot, Kaladi Brothers, Joe & Terese...
...In order to still entice mushers, the entry fee is down to $200 from $250 and there is no longer a late entry fee. Dean Osmar, local musher and Iditarod champion, started the race in 1984 with 10 to 15 local teams. The original purse was a...
...mushing Mecca, and several professional mushers use the dwindling system of local trails to train their teams, including Dean Osmar, the 1984 Iditarod champion, and his son Tim Osmar, the 2001 champ of the 1,000-mile Yukon Quest, which runs...
...I'd have to really take a hard look at the team. They'd have to be in really, really good shape," he said. Dean Osmar of Kasilof, who started the T-200 back in 1984 and placed second in last season's race, said he also doesn't...
...other races around the state,? Stone said. As of Thursday, 17 mushers were signed up, including Mitch Seavey and Dean Osmar, both past Iditarod champions; Aliy Zirkle and Ramy Brooks, both past Yukon Quest champions; Allen Moore, this year...
...has since died. Clarion file photo Dean Osmar remembers that day back in 1984 well...qualifier that?s what we had,? Dean Osmar, of Clam Gulch, said. Over the...Toll came in second at 29:34, Dean Osmar was third at 30:26, Kenai?s Dan...
...000-acre wildfire broke out in the Caribou Hills, and while Osmar was attempting to save his home and that of his father, Dean Osmar, the 1984 Iditarod champion, he was flung from a four-wheeler and shatter his right ankle. Osmar has hoped his injury...