John Balzar > Quotes

“At 30-below, mushers will begin to put fleece jackets on their more sensitive dogs. Males are affixed with pile jockstraps, "peter heaters," to guard against frostbite.”
― John Balzar, Yukon Alone: The World's Toughest Adventure Race

“During an ordinary Quest day, a fifty-pound dog needs the caloric equivalent of twenty double cheeseburgers, and more if the temperature drops.”
― John Balzar, Yukon Alone: The World's Toughest Adventure Race

“Nature has achieved nothing quite as preposterous as an adolescent moose, his head as big as a beer keg with antlers the size of oven mitts.”
― John Balzar, Yukon Alone: The World's Toughest Adventure Race

“The musher’s motto has always been Drive the dogs you have, not the dogs someone else has.”
― John Balzar, Yukon Alone: The World's Toughest Adventure Race

“The essential fascination of any exotic place is its people and culture.”
― John Balzar, Yukon Alone: The World's Toughest Adventure Race