Iditarod Musher Profile

Kurt Barnum, 41, was born and raised in California. He began mushing in 1995, and in 1999, he moved to Montana to run dogs. He says that after racing some good mushers in Wyoming, I wanted to run the Iditarod." A forester for the last 20 years, Kirk says he enjoys music, boats, dutch oven cooking and wildlife. "I like raising my own dogs from puppies. My kennel is usually about 50 dogs. When I'm not working with the dogs, I enjoy running rivers and pulling plugs for salmon and steelhead in drift boats."