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This is Jessie's 14th Iditarod. She finished 4th
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Bio
Jessie Royer, 39, was born
in Idaho. She grew up on a cattle ranch in Montana
where she lived for 21 years. She worked on ranches
as a horse wrangler and horse teamster. She says
she got her first sled dogs when she was 15. She
started learning about dogs from Doug Swingley whom
she worked with for a couple of years. She had dogs
in Montana seven years before moving to Alaska in
the spring on 1998. In December of 2011 she went
back to the ranch in Montana to work. She says,
“I still have my place in Fairbanks and go
back and forth as much as I can.” Jessie has
extensive mushing experience including having won
Montana’s Race to the Sky when she was only 17
and she was the winner of the invitational La
Grande Odyssée in France in 2005. She says
her hobbies are horses, hunting, mounted shooting
and photography.
Jessie Royer, 32, was born in Idaho. She grew up
on a cattle ranch in Montana where she lived for 21
years. She worked on ranches as a horse wrangler
& horse teamster. She says she got her first
sled dogs when she was 15. She started learning
about dogs from Doug Swingley whom she worked with
for a couple of years. She had dogs in Montana
seven years before moving to Alaska in the spring
on 1998. She now has a kennel north of Fairbanks
with 65 dogs. Jessie has extensive mushing
experience including having won Montana's Race to
the Sky when she was only 17 and she was the winner
of the invitational La Grande Odyssee in France in
2005. She says her hobbies are horses, hunting,
mounted shooting, drawing, braiding and
photography.
Results
Jessie withdrew from the 2012 Iditarod. She
finished 10th in 2011, 15th in 2010, 8th in 2009,
14th in 2008, 21st in 2007, 11th in 2006, 8th in
2005, 21st in 2004, 20th in 2003 and 14th in her
rookie yer in 2001. in the 2011 Iditarod.
Jessie was the first woman to finish of 95 mushers
in the 2008 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. She took
14th and won $29,100. She was once again the first
woman to finish in 2009 and took 8th.
Jessie was the first woman to finish of 95
mushers in the 2008 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
She took 14th and won $29,100.
Jesse Royer took a year off and she is back in
the 2013 Iditarod with her best team yet. She
finished in the 18th spot.
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