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Musher Aliy Zirkle on this week's Outdoor Explorer

Josh Edge, APRN

Zirkle sits down with Annie Feidt next Thursday on Outdoor Explorer. Catch it on KDLG AM 670 at 9 p.m.

Don't miss Outdoor Explorer this Thursday, at 9p.m. on AM 670.

Aliy Zirkle was the first woman to win the Yukon Quest and more recently — she’s come tantalizingly close to winning the Iditarod — placing 2nd three years in a row.

Zirkle didn’t grow up thinking she would become a famous musher. But she always loved the outdoors. And when she was studying biology at the University of Pennsylvania, she walked into a lab one day saw this sign on the door: “Why are you studying biology in downtown Philadelphia when you could be in Alaska?”

A few years later, she was mushing her first team of dogs in the Interior community of Bettles. Join host Annie Feidt for an interview with this remarkable musher.

HOST: Annie Feidt

GUESTS: 

  • Aliy Zirkle

BROADCAST: Thursday, February 26.  9:00 p.m. on KDLG AM 670

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