Iditarod Musher Profile

Jane Faulkner, 49, was born in Oregon and raised in the Bay Area in California. She received her A.D. in nursing at the College of Marin and has been a registered nurse for 20 years. She moved to Alaska on Christmas Day in 1990, "following my heart." She moved to a fixer upper barn property where she could have dogs and horses. She began mushing in 2000 and began thinking about the Iditarod in 2002 as she met more distance and Iditarod mushers. She has a son, Zachary, 25, and says she enjoys trail riding and biking.