RACE COVERAGE
Whitney McLaren Photography is offering race coverage to mushers! Some races will be photographed solo by Whitney while others will be in collaboration with other photographers. We love following your race as much as you love running it (we have a love/hate relationship too—we know you know what we’re talking about!)
Mushers and fans can reserve race coverage now for the 2021-2022 Season.
Just a few races I plan to attend: ACE, Copper Basin 300, TRDMA, Willow 300, Yukon Quest, Iditarod, Kobuk 440
I travel along races, capturing moments that usually only the mushers can see. I’ve been a race photographer for the Yukon Quest– one of the toughest sled dog races in the world– since 2014. Check out some of the other races I have photographed across Alaska below.
2022 Copper Basin 300
This was my fourth time covering this race and though it still had the 40 below start and reached cooler temperatures in the first nights the temperatures warmed up and even provided a touch of snow. This is one of the coldest races and provides some of the toughest 300 miles for mushers to travel.
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2021 ACE
67 miles down the Denali Highway to the Alpine Creek Lodge only accessible to dog teams and snow machines in the winter.
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2021 Kobuk 440
This was my first time covering this race and it was a challenge in many aspects for mushers, trail breakers, officials and volunteers. The weather didn’t want to cooperate, 30 minutes before the official start time it was 8 below with a windchill of 34 below with less than a mile (if that) of visibility. This race is often a beautiful spring event, but in 2021 it proved why it has been titled “The toughest race above the Arctic Circle.”
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2021 Iditarod
Thanks to Rock on Racing, I was able to get to a spot just a few miles out the trail for the day of the start. Mushers were still just starting their race, but it was a beautiful day and we were able to see all the mushers pass us by.
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2021 North Pole Championships
Teaming up with Nathanael Hardy, together we were able to each cover a day of the race of the North Pole Championships.
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2021 Junior Open North American Championships
Taking photos of the future of sprint and distance mushers is so fun! Check out all these kids, serious and not so serious having a great time out on the runners.
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2021 Two Rivers 100/200
Teaming up with Cross Fox Photography for a second season, we offered race coverage to mushers! We love following the race as much mushers love running it (we have a love/hate relationship too—if you’re a musher or fan, you know you know what I’m talking about!). *Full Gallery to be complete within a week of the race finish.
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2021 Summit Quest 300
Teaming up with Cross Fox Photography for a second season, we offered race coverage to mushers! We love following the race as much mushers love running it (we have a love/hate relationship too—if you’re a musher or fan, you know you know what I’m talking about!). *Full Gallery to be complete within a week of the race finish.
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2021 Willow 300
Teaming up with Cross Fox Photography for a second season, we offered race coverage to mushers! We love following the race as much mushers love running it (we have a love/hate relationship too—if you’re a musher or fan, you know you know what I’m talking about!). *Full Gallery to be complete within a week of the race finish.
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2021 Copper Basin 300
Teaming up with Cross Fox Photography for a second season, we offered race coverage to mushers! We love following the race as much mushers love running it (we have a love/hate relationship too—if you’re a musher or fan, you know you know what I’m talking about!). *Full Gallery to be complete within a week of the race finish.
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2020 Two Rivers Solstice 50/100
This was my second time following and helping with this race. The weather was beautiful, the dogs and mushers were excited to kick off their season and the trails were not holding them back because boy were their runs fast!
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2020 Iditarod
This is the race. The race that mushers strive to run, that they dream to run once they know about it. The nascar of sled dog racing. I can almost say the same about photographing it. This year I followed one musher but took photos of other teams as well. I didn’t get to go to all the checkpoints but it was a blast to go to the ones that I did.
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2020 Yukon Quest
For the seventh year I was fortunate enough to follow the Yukon Quest as one of the official photographers. The field was much smaller this year but the temperatures weren’t as cold as previous years, both of which added their own challenges to covering the race. This link has photos from other official photographers as well, check them out!
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2019 Two Rivers 100/ 200
Though the Two Rivers 100/ 200 did not follow the Yukon Quest trail exactly, it was so nice to get to see parts of the trail, and the Two Rivers checkpoint in the DAYLIGHT.
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2019 Yukon Quest
The race has its own challenges when it comes to logistics and weather, but the organizers, volunteers, mushers, and dogs are what makes this race great. No matter where you sit in the line up, each person embarks on their own Quest.
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Mushers and fans can reserve race coverage now for the 2021-2022 Season
ACE, Copper Basin 300, TRDMA, Willow 300, Yukon Quest, Iditarod, Kuskokwim 300, Two Rivers 100/200 Kobuk 440