Eagle Cap Extreme

Terry became an Oregon resident at age 5 - a California transplant. After graduating from Southern Oregon College, a trip to Alaska ended with a Siberian Husky pup joining the family. During his 26 years running sled dogs, he ran some sprint races, mid-distance races, distance races and many Dune Mushersí Mail Runs. But his biggest feat was finishing the Iditarod in 1990.

During the years he was involved with mushing, he also made most of the equipment he and Cari used in the sport. He has enjoyed working races since retiring from the sport. His past experience includes being a judge in the Iditarod for 6 years, the John Beargrease in Minnesota and presently working the Eagle Cap Extreme Dog Race in Joseph, Oregon and the Seney 300 in Michigan. He is also teaching mushing to orphans in Russia, while helping the Russians organize the first stage race in the northwestern part of their country..

David has been working for ODOT for 25 years as an engineer in access management. He has had dogs most of his life, and prefers cocker spaniels. Currently he has a cocker spaniel as well as an American Eskimo and shiz tzu by way of marriage. David married Marsha Noone in November of 2006. Marsha has two children, Wesley, 14, and Shayna, 10, and the above mentioned shiz tzu.

David got started with sled dog racing in central Oregon by volunteering with the ATTABOY sled dog race. The first year he helped out with corner work and cleanup. The second year he was assigned to the sweep crew, picking up the course and helping any team in trouble get home. The next year he was on the point crew, marking and clearing the trail. He followed that up the next year by being appointed the Trailboss.

Dr. Vern Starks graduated from University of Missouri in 1965. He and his wife Mimi and baby Eric moved to Ketchikan , Alaska in 1967 to pioneer a full time veterinary practice where none existed before.

Fishing and hunting was great and it was an ideal place to raise three sons. With his floatplanes he extended those services to logging camps, native villages, and adjacent southern southeast Alaska towns.

In Ketchikan, Vern was active in Boy Scouts, Science Fair, Past President of Rotary, and was Citizen of the Year for 1998. He has been a trail vet on the Iditarod since 1989. He has worked with the Yukon Quest since 2001 and was the Head Veterinarian for that race in 2006 and 2007.

He set up the veterinary program for the Eagle Cap Extreme Race based in the mountains of northeast Oregon and has served as Chief Veterinarian since the beginning in 2005. He has also worked on the Can-Am race in Maine and the Cascade Quest race in Washington State. He served nine years on the International Sled Dog Veterinary Medical Association Board.

Cari was raised in Klamath Falls and has been in the Rogue Valley (except for 4 years in Minnesota) since graduating from Southern Oregon College. For the next 30 years, she was a teacher and a librarian/media specialist in the Eagle Point School District. During their 26 years running sled dogs, she ran many sprint races, a couple of mid-distance races and the Mail Run on the Oregon coast. Also, during most of those years, she was helping Terry train for long distance races. She has missed being active in the sport of running sled dogs, but enjoys being connected with it by working races and still being part of the Oregon Dunes Mushersí Mail Run and Eagle Cap Extreme Sled Dog Race.