I have been an outdoors enthusiast for nearly forty years. I started out backpacking as a Boy Scout. Pretty quickly, I became interested in climbing and backcountry skiing. I started pursuing mountain climbing while in high school, rock climbing while in college, and backcountry skiing while in graduate school. I continue to pursue each of these today.

While in college, I found my first Siberian Husky. Or she found me, it’s not clear which. Whichever it was, I fell in love with the breed.

Mushing was an obvious way to combine outdoor pursuits and time with my dogs. I started in 1999 by skijoring with the two show stock Siberians I then owned. I raced as a skijorer in 2000, 2001, and 2002. I did a little sprint sled racing in 2003 and 2004. The next two seasons I did 6 and 12 dog mid-distance heat races. More recently, I finished Montana’s Race to the Sky and Oregon’s Eagle Cap Extreme, both Iditarod Qualifiers. I entered the 2009 Iditarod. What happened on the trail is described both in “Iditarod 2009” and my writing section in “The Bumbling Physicist Replies.”

It’s not clear what the immediate future holds, but my long term goal is to focus on backcountry and expedition mushing.

I now own 19 racing stock purebred Siberians. My racing dogs are mostly from Bob Chlupach/Rick Outwin’s Chlout-Velikaya Kennel. I also have a few racing dogs from Karen Yeargain’s Tumnatki kennel.

I am a 54 year old nuclear physicist having earned my B.S. from Caltech and my Ph.D. from the University of Washington. In addition to mushing, physics, climbing, and skiing, I enjoy Taekwon-Do which I have been studying since 1979. I am hoping to make a career out of writing about these. Any suggestions would be appreciated.