Winterdance by Gary Paulsen
A fascinating account of a man so obsessed by the Iditarod that he had to run it twice. His tales of maniacal dogs, blinding snowstorms and moose attacks are alternately gripping and hysterically funny. A typical event is a training session in which Paulsen lost control of his dogs. They dragged him across his snow-free yard, creating such friction that a book of matches in his pants pocket ignited. And then there was the time his lead dog caught a skunk, and without thinking the author grabbed it out of her mouth…